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US 4,784,659 AGranted
Vessel and prosthesis impregnated with diisocyanate crosslinked gelatin
AssigneeIntermedicat GmbH
InventorsPeter Fleckenstein, Heinz-Helmut Werner
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Abstract
The invention relates to vessel prostheses formed from a porous vascular prosthesis impregnated with diisocyanate crosslinked gelatin for sealing the pores.
Claims10
An implantable vessel prosthesis comprising a porous tubular structure sealed by impregnation with a material containing gelatin which is crosslinked with a diisocyanate so that pores of the structure are filled with an insoluble crosslinked gelatin/diisocyanate decomposable at a rate of tissue growth into the pores on implantation of the prosthesis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.