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US 2014/0228751 A1Published application
Medical Device for Dispersing Medicaments
AssigneeBayer Intellectual Property GmbH
InventorsUlrich SPECK, Bruno SCHELLER
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Abstract
For selective treatment of diseased tissue sections or organ parts, the surface of medical devices entering into contact with areas thereof under pressure is coated with lipophilic substantially water-insoluble medicaments binding to various tissue components with good adherence thereto, said medicaments having an effect thereupon a short time after entering into contact therewith without exerting a harmful influence upon adjacent healthy tissue.
Claims13
1-23. (canceled)
A medical device comprising a balloon having a surface;
- wherein the balloon surface comprises paclitaxel and a low molecular weight matrix substance;
- and
- wherein the low molecular weight matrix substance comprises a hydrophilic material.
A medical device comprising a balloon having a surface;
- wherein the balloon surface comprises paclitaxel and a low molecular weight matrix substance adhered to the balloon surface;
- and
- wherein the low molecular weight matrix substance comprises sugars, sugar alcohols, low molecular weight polyethylene glycols, biocompatible organic salts, or biocompatible inorganic salts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.