Mechanical Extension Implants for Short-Bowel Syndrome.
Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng
; 6173: 617309, 2006.
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ABSTRACT
Short-bowel syndrome (SBS) is a rare, potentially lethal medical condition where the small intestine is far shorter than required for proper nutrient absorption. Current treatment, including nutritional, hormone-based, and surgical modification, have limited success resulting in 30% to 50% mortality rates. Recent advances in mechanotransduction, stressing the bowel to induce growth, show great promise; but for successful clinical use, more sophisticated devices that can be implanted are required. This paper presents two novel devices that are capable of the long-term gentle stressing. A prototype of each device was designed to fit inside a short section of bowel and slowly extend, allowing the bowel section to grow approximately double its initial length. The first device achieves this through a dual concentric hydraulic piston that generated almost 2-fold growth of a pig small intestine. For a fully implantable extender, a second device was developed based upon a shape memory alloy actuated linear ratchet. The proof-of-concept prototype demonstrated significant force generation and almost double extension when tested on the benchtop and inside an ex-vivo section of pig bowel. This work provides the first steps in the development of an implantable extender for treatment of SBS.
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