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Product category: Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs
News Release from: Xemics | Subject: BioControl MiniatURO
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 May 2002
Implant aids incontinence
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The Xemics ZoomingADC is playing a key role in a novel medical electronics device for the treatment of mixed urinary incontinence.
The BioControl MiniatURO is a microelectronic muscle and nerve stimulator, the size of a small pacemaker, that is implanted subcutaneously in an outpatient procedure for the treatment of mixed urinary incontinence For individuals suffering stress incontinence, whenever the MiniatURO senses an increase in abdominal pressure, it applies mild electrical pulses to the pelvic floor muscles