Patent ID: 8801694

Claim:
A drug delivery device for deployment into the urinary bladder of a patient, the drug delivery device comprising: a tubular body having an internal reservoir, the internal reservoir being in the form of an elongated central lumen with closed ends, the body comprising a wall which is at least partially non-resorbable; and a solid or semi-solid drug formulation housed within the internal reservoir of the body, the solid or semi-solid drug formulation comprising a drug, wherein the drug delivery device is deformable from a first configuration suited for passing the drug delivery device through a lumen of a urethral catheter or cystoscope into the bladder to a second configuration suited for retaining the device in the bladder, wherein the drug delivery device is configured to assume the second configuration upon exiting the urethral catheter or cystoscope, without an additional procedure to load a pharmaceutical solution into the device after the device is released into the bladder.