Nitric oxide-releasing nitroso compositions and methods and intravascular devices for using them to prevent restenosis
US5665077A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 24, 1995 |
| Grant date | Sep 9, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 24, 2015 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61L2300/606
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A surface of a foreign body exposed to the flowing blood of a living being which normally would promote the aggregation of platelets in that blood to form a coating firmly affixed to that surface and thus restrict the flow of blood past that surface or to form a blood clot detachable from that surface which when detached could trigger a stroke, heart attack or partial loss of lung function, such as plastic tubing, a balloon or the end of a catheter surgically inserted in a blood vessel or a stem implanted therein, e.g., in conjunction with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or the interior wall of a length of plastic tubing used to transport the blood of a patient, undergoing hypothermic surgery, inhibits such aggregation when that surface is coated with a physiologically acceptable polymer, such as polyvinyl alcohol or fibrinin, containing dissolved or dispersed therein a nitroso compound, such as 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane, which decomposes at body temperature and in so doing releases a platelet aggregation-inhibiting amount of nitric oxide during the post-surgical period when the individual is a high risk candidate for post-surgical foreign body-mediated platelet aggr…
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