Surgical suture material with an antimicrobial surface and process for providing an antimicrobial coating on surgical suture material
AssigneeHeraeus Kulzer GmbH
InventorsSebastian Vogt, Klaus-Dieter Kuhn, Hubert Büchner
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Abstract
A surgical suture material with an antimicrobial surface is described, the surface exhibiting a coating containing a) at least one fatty acid, b) octenidine dichloride and/or dequalinium chloride and c) optionally oligomeric lactic acid esters. In addition, a process for coating surgical suture material is described which is characterized by the fact that the thread material is wetted with a homogeneous methanolic solution of octenidine dichloride and/or dequalinium chloride and subsequently the methanol is evaporated, a coating forming on the thread surface.
Claims4
Surgical suture material comprising an antimicrobial surface, wherein the surface exhibits a coating comprising the following components:
- a) at least one fatty acid,
- b) at least one of octenidine dichloride and dequalinium chloride, and
- c) optionally oligomeric lactic acid esters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.