Artificial bladder
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- Status: disponibile a cessione o licenza
- Patent type: Brevetti
- Priority Number: 102016000020427
- Subject University
- Technologic Area: Biomedical
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- Assignees: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Novello Pinzi
- Inventors: Leonardo Ricotti, Tommaso Mazzocchi, Rossella Fontana, Novello Pinzi, Arianna Menciassi, Veronica Iacovacci
This invention consists of an implantable artificial bladder featured by the ability of both varying its internal volume and offering a high resistance to urine and encrustations. Thanks to a multilayered body provided with a peculiar configuration, the device allows to match the performance of the natural organ in terms of deformability and long-term resistance to urine...other