An apparatus and method for providing hyperthermia therapy to a living subject, in particular a human, animal or plant. The apparatus has contains a signal generator, a signal modulator and an emitter to enable the apparatus to provide hyperthermia treatment. Hyperthermia therapy may be provided to a living subject by generating a signal, selectably modulating the signal and delivering the signal to the target location on the living subject. It is possible to interrupt any further use of the apparatus after a predetermined period.

Methods and devices for treating nasal airways are provided. Such devices and methods may improve airflow through an internal and/or external nasal valve, and comprise the use of mechanical re-shaping, energy application and other treatments to modify the shape, structure, and/or air flow characteristics of an internal nasal valve, an external nasal valve or other nasal airways.

An apparatus used for increasing the level of CD4.sup.+T cells in a mammal. The mammal has a cancerous tissue. The apparatus comprises a cold treatment unit and a heat treatment unit. The cold treatment unit is used for cooling the cancerous tissue. The heat treatment unit is used for heating the cancerous tissue. A method for increasing the level of CD4.sup.+ T cells in the body of a cancer patient, comprising steps for cold treatment of the cancerous tissue and for heat treatment of the cancerous tissue.

A method for reshaping a nasal airway in a patient involves advancing an inflatable balloon of a reshaping device in an uninflated configuration into a nostril of the patient and between a nasal septum and a lateral wall of the nasal airway. The method then involves inflating the inflatable balloon to an inflated configuration to cause the inflatable balloon to contact nasal mucosa covering the nasal septum and the lateral wall, delivering energy from an energy delivery member attached to or inside of the inflatable balloon, and removing the reshaping device from the nasal airway.

A safety assembly for performing endodermal radiofrequency treatments, performed by a needle-shaped transducer supplied by a respective control and management unit and a cannula, made of electrically conducting material and partially superficially insulated, designed to accommodate the needle-shaped transducer and intended to be arranged under the skin of the patient. The assembly includes an identification element, uniquely associated with the cannula, which incorporates a first unique data string. The control and management unit includes a reader for reading the first data string of the identification element; the reader is designed to enable the operation of the transducer upon reading a correct first data string.

A global irradiation thermotherapy system based on coordinated rotation of microwave and radio frequency, including an annular phantom, an intelligent control unit, a microwave rotary heating mechanism, a capacitive radio frequency rotary heating mechanism and a temperature-measuring mechanism connected with the intelligent control unit. This disclosure also provides a global thermotherapy instrument.

A process for heat treating biological tissue includes providing a plurality of energy emitters formed into an array. Treatment energy in the form of ultrasound energy is generated from the plurality of emitters and applied to target tissue. The treatment energy has energy and application parameters selected so as to raise the target tissue temperature sufficiently to create a therapeutic effect while maintaining an average temperature of the target tissue over several minutes at or below a predetermined temperature so as not to destroy or permanently damage the target tissue.

Methods for treating urinary stress incontinence by non-invasively delivering energy to one or more submucosal regions of vaginal tissue to induce remodeling within the vaginal tissue are provided. In some embodiments, the energy delivery results in heating of the target tissue to a temperature that ranges from about 38° C. to about 46° C. In some embodiments, the subject methods involve cooling a mucosal epithelial layer over the vaginal tissue. In some embodiments, a reverse thermal gradient is produced as the mucosal epithelium is cooled while energy is delivered to the underlying vaginal tissue.

This application provides a physical targeted hyperthermia system used for tumor therapy and a control method thereof. The system mainly includes a hyperthermia apparatus body, a microwave radiation device, a microwave receiving device, a microwave imaging unit, a microwave temperature-measuring unit, a hyperthermia solution generating unit, a hyperthermia solution executing unit, and a hyperthermia control device. The hyperthermia apparatus body is used to provide stable supporting surface for a patient and to provide an mounting sites for related function devices, the microwave radiation device is used to generate a microwave with a set wavelength and a set frequency radiating toward a set direction, the microwave receiving device and the microwave imaging unit are used to accurately position the tumor tissue, the hyperthermia solution generating unit is used to generate hyperthermia parameter information, and the hyperthermia solution executing unit is used to generate corresponding hyperthermia solution execution information.

This application provides a preparation method of a heating fluid used for biological targeted hyperthermia, a heating fluid preparation device, a biological targeted hyperthermia apparatus, and a control method of the biological targeted hyperthermia, in which the biological targeted hyperthermia apparatus includes: a heating fluid injection device configured to inject a heating fluid into a body circulatory system of a therapy subject; a microwave radiation device configured to provide microwave radiation with a set wavelength and a set frequency; a microwave imaging temperature-measuring device configured to detect a temperature and a position of the heating fluid in the therapy subject, and output a thermal imaging signal; and a control device used for receiving the thermal imaging signal and controlling the microwave radiation device to output the microwave radiation with the set wavelength and the set frequency.