CPC A61M 39/0208 (2013.01) [A61M 39/04 (2013.01)] | 13 Claims |
1. An access port device for intrathecal drug delivery in a subject in need thereof, the access port device comprising a peripheral wall running along a portion of an exterior edge of a bottom of the access port device forming a catheter compartment, wherein a catheter, secured to the access port device, has a portion of a proximal portion of the catheter looped one or more times and contained within the catheter compartment and, after the device has been implanted in the subject, the catheter is extensible outside the catheter compartment to increase a length of a distal portion of the catheter or is retractable inside the compartment to decrease the length of the distal portion of the catheter.
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