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7390525 |
Processes for producing polymer coatings for release of therapeutic agent
A method for furnishing a therapeutic-agent-containing medical device is provided. The method comprises: (a) providing a reactive layer comprising a cross-linking agent on a medical device surface;...
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7390524 |
Method for electrostatic spraying of an abluminal stent surface
A method for electrostatic spraying of an abluminal surface of a stent is provided.
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7390523 |
Method of forming a diffusion barrier layer for implantable devices
A method of forming a diffusion barrier for an implantable medical device carrying a therapeutic or bioactive substance is disclosed. The diffusion barrier reduces the rate at which the therapeutic...
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7387846 |
Electrolytic deposition of coatings for prosthetic metals and alloys
An article coated with an electrolytically deposited bio-compatible composite layer useful as an internal prosthetic device is disclosed. The bio-compatible composite coating that is...
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7387810 |
Method of forming rate limiting barriers for implantable devices
A method is disclosed for forming a coating on implantable medical devices including an interpenetrating polymer network that serves as a rate limiting barrier.
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7384660 |
Implantable device having substances impregnated therein and a method of impregnating the same
A method of impregnating an implantable device, such as a vasclar graft or a covering adapted to be disposed over a prosthesis, is provided. The substances may be impregnated within the implantable...
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7374791 |
Method for making and measuring a coating on the surface of a medical device using an ultraviolet laser
This invention relates to a method for manufacturing an implantable medical device, having a surface covered with a coating that can include a desired amount of a biologically active material,...
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7371425 |
Method for coating substrates with a carbon-based material
The present invention relates to a method for coating substrates with a carbon-based material, comprising the steps of at least partially coating a substrate with a polymer film on at least one...
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7371424 |
Method and apparatus for coating a medical device using a coating head
Methods and apparatuses for coating surface of medical devices using coating heads are disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention includes a coating method using a coating head, wherein the...
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7371257 |
Stent lining
The invention features a catheter assembly and methods for delivering a hydrogel-lined stent to a body lumen, and methods for lining a stent with a hydrogel. The assembly includes a catheter which...
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7368065 |
Implants with textured surface and methods for producing the same
Compositions and methods are provided for preparing a metal substrate having a uniform textured surface with a plurality of indentations with a diameter in the nanometer and micrometer range. The...
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7358070 |
Process for formation of pattern of polyhydroxyalkanoate
A process for forming a fine pattern comprised of a polyhydroxyalkanoate on a substrate is provided. The process comprises steps of applying a polyhydroxyalkanoate-synthesizing enzyme and a...
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7356368 |
Light-activated anti-infective coatings and devices made thereof
An implantable medical device is provided including a vascular access device and a coating on at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of the vascular access device. The coating...
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7344749 |
Method for coating a substrate with calcium phosphate
A method for coating substrates with calcium phosphate. The aim of the method is to be able to carry out a simple coating for all materials as well as for particles. To this end, the substrate to...
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7335391 |
Method for coating implantable devices
A method of forming a coating for an implantable medical device, such as a stent, is provided which includes applying a composition to the device in an environment having a selected pressure.
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7329431 |
Stent and method of manufacturing stent
A stent to be implanted in a lumen in a living body comprises a stent main body, and a polymer layer provided on a surface of the stent main body, wherein the polymer layer comprises a first...
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7329366 |
Method of polishing implantable medical devices to lower thrombogenecity and increase mechanical stability
The present invention relates to a method of polishing an implantable medical device. The method may include positioning an implantable medical device on a support. At least a portion of a surface...
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7326433 |
Method of cryogenically coating a device
The present invention is directed to a method for coating a surface of a medical device with a coating composition. The method involves chilling the surface to be coated to below the freezing point...
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7318945 |
Laminated drug-polymer coated stent having dipped layers
The present invention provides a method of applying a drug-polymer coating on a stent. A stent framework is dipped into a first polymeric solution including a first polymer, a first therapeutic...
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7318944 |
Extrusion process for coating stents
The present invention provides a method of coating a stent. A stent framework is provided. A polymeric mixture is injected through at least one inlet port in an extrusion die, and the polymeric...
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7316845 |
Multifunctional polymeric tissue coatings
Compositions for coating biological and non-biological surfaces, which minimize or prevent cell-cell contact and tissue adhesion, and methods of preparation and use thereof, are disclosed....
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7306625 |
Balloon expandable stent
The present invention relates to a balloon expandable stent mounted on a balloon catheter, the entire assembly being overcoated with a coherent polymer coating, which is preferably substantially...
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7303278 |
Multifocal contact lens
A contact lens formed from a transparent material having front and rear surfaces, wherein the rear surface has a base curve which is adapted to fit an eye of a wearer of the lens. The front surface...
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7301001 |
Bioabsorbable, biobeneficial polyester polymers for stent coatings
This disclosure covers polymers, some of which are useful in medical device applications. Some of these medical devices are implantable within a mammalian body, such as in a body lumen. The...
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7300461 |
Intravascular stent with expandable coating
An intravascular stent ( 26 ) has a surface coated with a biocompatible layer. The layer contains a diamond like nanocomposite material. This nanocomposite material comprises carbon, hydrogen,...
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7297159 |
Selective coating of medical devices
Methods for coating different regions of an implantable device are disclosed. An embodiment of the method includes dipping a first portion of the implantable device into a first coating substance,...
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7294356 |
Performance enhancing coating on intraluminal devices
This invention comprises guidewires, stents and other intraluminal devices having a performance enhancing coating deposited using physical vapor deposition (PVD) or chemical vapor deposition (CVD)....
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7285304 |
Fluid treatment of a polymeric coating on an implantable medical device
A method of manufacturing an implantable medical device including applying a composition to an implantable medical device, the composition including a polymer, an active agent and a solvent;...
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7285132 |
Polymer coated stent
A tubular intraluminal prosthesis includes a PTFE or ePTFE tubular structure such as a graft, and a tubular diametrically deformable stent circumferentially surrounding the tubular structure. The...
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7278195 |
Method for producing a coated medical support device
Method for producing a coated medical support device capable of insertion into the body, the method including the procedures of applying a coating to a section of a work-piece, positioning the...
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7261914 |
Method and apparatus for forming a nitride layer on a biomedical device
This invention is a method of forming a nitride layer on at least one metal or metal alloy biomedical device, comprising: providing a vacuum chamber with at least one biomedical device positioned...
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7258891 |
Stent mounting assembly and a method of using the same to coat a stent
A stent mounting device and a method of coating a stent using the device are provided.
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7258810 |
In-situ oxidized textured surfaces for prosthetic devices and method of making same
A textured surface and oxidation layer coating on a metallic material is accomplished through the chemical and/or electrochemical etching of the surface to modify the surface texture and an in-situ...
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7255891 |
Method for coating implantable medical devices
A method for coating an implantable medical device that has the steps of applying a polymer composition onto the device, the polymer composition including a solution of a polymer in a solvent, and...
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7250195 |
Molecular plasma deposition of colloidal materials
A molecular plasma discharge deposition method for depositing colloidal suspensions of biomaterials such as amino acids or other carbon based substances onto metal or nonmetal surfaces without loss...
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7247338 |
Coating medical devices
Methods and systems for coating at least a portion of a medical device (e.g., a stent structure) include providing a plurality of coating particles (e.g., monodisperse coating particles) in a...
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7238669 |
Phage-display peptides as novel antimicrobial agents against Haemophilus influenzae
Whole cell phage-display techniques were used to identify several peptides that bound preferentially to a non-typeable strain of Haemophilus influenzae . These peptides were able to inhibit growth...
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7238363 |
Modification of medical prostheses
The incorporation of one or more therapeutic agents on metallic and non-metallic medical prostheses is provided. The therapeutic agent can be used, for example, to prevent, treat, or reduce...
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7232587 |
Method for the passivation of an intraocular lens
The invention includes a method for the passivation of the surface of an intraocular lens, wherein the surface includes Brönsted sites. The intraocular lens is dipped into a solution of a...
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7211296 |
Chalcogenide glass nanostructures
Chalcogenide nanowires and other micro-and nano scale structures are grown on a preselected portion of on a substrate. They are amorphous and of uniform composition and can be grown by a...
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7208190 |
Method of loading beneficial agent to a prosthesis by fluid-jet application
An interventional device for delivery of beneficial agent to a lumen and methods of loading and manufacture of the same, which include a prosthesis loaded with beneficial agent to provide a...
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7208011 |
Implantable medical device with drug filled holes
The present invention relates to implantable medical devices for delivery of therapeutic agents, such as drugs, to a patient. More particularly, the invention relates to a device having therapeutic...
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7201935 |
Plasma-generated coatings for medical devices and methods for fabricating thereof
Coatings for implantable medical devices, such as stents, and methods of coating the devices are disclosed. The method includes forming a coating by plasma polymerization of a monomer or a blend of...
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7151139 |
Antimicrobial polymeric surfaces
Bactericidal compositions are disclosed that comprise a polymeric compound immobilized on a material. Medical devices are also disclosed which comprise such a bactericidal composition. Methods are...
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7125577 |
Method and apparatus for coating of substrates
The invention relates to methods and apparatuses that reduce problems encountered during coating of a device, such as a medical device having a cylindrical shape. In an embodiment, the invention...
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7115300 |
Method of coating implantable medical devices
A method of coating a medical device, such as a stent is provided.
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7115299 |
Balloon catheter for delivering therapeutic agents
A method for making a drug delivery device, wherein a composition is applied onto a porous inflatable member, the porous inflatable member integrated at a distal end of a catheter-based device, and...
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7105199 |
Methods of adhering drugs to the surface of medical devices through ion beam surface modification
Methods of implanting, applying, or adhering various drug molecules directly into or onto the surface of medical devices through gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) and/or monomer ion beam surface...
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7105198 |
Method for coating stent
A method of coating a stent includes immersing a portion of the stent into a coating liquid, and withdrawing the immersed portion of the stent from the coating liquid. The stent is simultaneously...
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7094256 |
Coatings for implantable medical device containing polycationic peptides
Coatings for implantable medical devices and methods for fabricating the same are disclosed. The coatings include carboxylated acrylates and polycationic peptides, for example R7.
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