Implantable medical device with a protected medication layer
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsLars-Olof Peterson, Ulf Lindegren, Brigitte Stroetmann
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Abstract
An implantable medical device has surfaces that are in communication with the tissue of the patient after an implantation. At least one part of these surfaces is provided with at least one layer composed of a medication. In order to simply and reliably control the administration of a desired quantity of the medication, the medication layer is covered by at least one layer composed of an ion exchanger material.
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An implantable medical device having ion exchange properties, said device having surfaces which are in communication with the tissue of a patient after implantation of said device, at least a part of these surfaces being covered by a layer composed of a medication, and said layer composed of a medication being covered by at least one layer composed of an ion exchanger material.
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