Generation of therapeutic microfoam
AssigneeBTG International Limited
InventorsTariq Osman, Sheila Flynn, David Dakin Wright, Anthony Harman, Timothy Boorman
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Abstract
Improved therapeutic sclerosing microfoams and methods and devices for making them are provided that have advantage in producing a consistent profile injectable foam with minimal input by the physician yet using high volume percentages of blood dispersible gases, thus avoiding use of potentially hazardous amounts of nitrogen.
Claims2
A method for producing a microfoam suitable for use in sclerotherapy of blood vessels characterized in that it comprises passing a mixture of a physiologically acceptable blood dispersible gas and an aqueous sclerosant liquid through one or more passages having at least one cross-sectional dimension of from 0.1 to 30 μm, the ratio of gas to liquid being controlled such that a microfoam is produced having a density of between 0.07 g/mL to 0.19 g/mL and has a half-life of at least 2 minutes.
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