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US 5,591,227 AGranted
Drug eluting stent
AssigneeMedtronic, Inc.
InventorsThomas Q. Dinh, Ronald J. Tuch, Robert S. Schwartz
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Abstract
An intraluminal stent comprising fibrin and an elutable drug is capable of providing a treatment of restenosis.
Claims11
A drug eluting intravascular stent comprising:
- (a) a generally cylindrical stent body;
- (b) a solid composite of a polymer and a therapeutic substance in an adherent layer on the stent body;
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- (c) fibrin in an adherent layer on the composite.
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