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Ambulatory urodynamic monitoring: state of the art and future directions

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-019-0175-5

Published Online: 2019-04-01

Published Print: 2019-05

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Authors

Abelson, Benjamin

Majerus, Steve

Sun, Daniel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6105-3785
Gill, Bradley C.

Versi, Eboo

Damaser, Margot S.
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Competing interests

: S.M. and M.S.D. are co-inventors on a patent titled ‘Implantable Pressure Sensor’ (US 10,143,391 B2), which might be perceived as a competitive technology to those described in this paper. This patent is assigned jointly to the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. It has not been licensed or optioned by a company. Additional related intellectual property with S.M. and M.S.D. as co-inventors include ‘Intravesicular Device’ (International Patent Application WO2005/115245 A1), ‘Bladder Event Detection for Diagnosis of Urinary Incontinence or Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction’ (US 15/142,704), ‘Systems and Methods for Estimating a Volume of a Hollow Organ’ (US 16/074,149; International Patent Application WO2017/136212) and ‘Non-Surgical Mechanisms for Ambulatory Urodynamics’ (US Provisional Patent filed 25 May 2018). None of this additional intellectual property has been licensed. These technologies are examples of the telemetric ambulatory urodynamic monitoring devices referred to in the manuscript. The other authors declare no competing interests.