Microwave antennas and devices incorporating such antennas usable for performing procedures on or within a patient's body using a shaped microwave field.

Dermatological systems and methods for providing a therapeutic laser treatment wherein the duration of a therapeutic laser pulse is based on one or more determinations of a surface temperature of the skin during the delivery of the pulse. Initiation of the therapeutic laser pulse may be based on sensed skin temperature during a cooling of the skin prior to initiation of the pulse.

This invention relates to the treatment of a patient's lung, for example, a lung exhibiting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and in particular to methods and devices for affecting lung volume reduction, preferably for achieving acute or immediate lung volume reduction following treatment. The lung volume reduction is effected by delivering a condensable vapor at a temperature above body temperature to the desired regions of the patient's lung to damage tissue therein. Blood flow and air flow to the damaged tissue region is essentially terminated, rendering the target region non-functional. Alternative energy sources may be used to effect the thermal damage to the lung tissue.

A method for manufacturing an electrode configuration configured for use with an electrosurgical instrument is provided. A pre-assembled jaw configuration including jaw members including respective first and second electrodes is provided. One or more stop members are positioned on the first electrode. The first and second electrodes are approximated toward one another for contact therebetween so as to form an at least one indentation on the second electrode.

Electrosurgical lysing devices and related systems and methods. In some embodiments, the lysing device may comprise a lysing tip comprising a plurality of beads. One or more of the plurality of beads may be electrically non-conductive, at least along their respective surfaces. The lysing tip may further comprise at least one lysing member defining at least one lysing segment extending between each pair of adjacent beads. At least a subset of the plurality of beads may protrude both distally and proximally relative to the at least one lysing member.

Medical devices and methods for treating and occluding a female patient's fallopian tubes to provide permanent birth control or sterilization.

Electrosurgical lysing devices and related systems and methods. In some embodiments, the lysing device may comprise a lysing tip comprising a plurality of beads and at least one lysing member, such as a lysing rod, defining at least one lysing segment extending between each pair of adjacent beads. The at least one lysing member may extend through a tunnel extending at least partially through each of the plurality of beads so as to define the at least one lysing segment between each pair of adjacent beads.

Medical devices and methods for treating and occluding a female patient's fallopian tubes to provide permanent birth control or sterilization.

A marking method includes: a step of irradiating, with first light (narrow band light) from an endoscope, an observation target site not suitable for spray of a coloring agent in a subject; a step of picking up an image of, through the endoscope, second light (reflected light of the narrow band light) generated at the observation target site through irradiation of the observation target site with the narrow band light; a step of displaying an image in which a site suspected to be a tumor is highlighted by generating the image based on the second light received through the endoscope; and a step of providing a tissue denatured portion around the site suspected to be a tumor by using an energy radiation device while the displayed image is observed.

A system and method for image-guided cell isolation from a region of interest of a subject is disclosed. The system and method include imaging the subject using optical microscopy to identify the region of interest in a target anatomy, inserting a micropipette into the region of interest under guidance of the optical microscopy, and aspirating at least one cell of a target population of cells in the region of interest under guidance of the optical microscopy. The method further includes analyzing the at least one cell aspirated from the region of interest.