Coated Medical Device and Method of Coating a Medical Device to Reduce Fibrosis and Capsule Formation
AssigneeEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
InventorsHicham Majd, Giorgio Pietramaggiori, Boris Hinz
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Abstract
Coating for a medical device comprising cell-adhesive proteins having the ability to reduce fibrous reaction, said coating being in the form of separate islets having an individual area which is less than 12 μm2 and wherein the distance between the islets is less than 50 μm.
Claims15
A coating for a medical device comprising cell-adhesive proteins having the ability to reduce fibrous reaction, said coating being in the form of separate islets having an individual area which is less than 12 μm2 and wherein the distance between the islets is less than 50 μm.
A coating according to one of the previous claims wherein the cell-adhesive proteins are composed of collagen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.