Medical product for treating stenosis of body passages and for preventing threatening restenosis

US8597720B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Hemoteq AG · DE

Inventors

• Erika Hoffmann · Eschweiler, DE
• Roland Horres · Stolberg, DE
• Volker Faust · Aachen, DE
• Helmut Schreiber · Bottenberg, DE
• Armin Von Holst · Aachen, DE
• Michael Hoffmann · Walchwil, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 21, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 3, 2013
• Expiry date: Aug 31, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2025/1088
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for coating catheter balloons with a defined amount of a pharmacologically active agent, uses a coating device having a volume measuring device for releasing a measurable amount of a coating solution by means of a dispensing device specifically onto the surface of the catheter balloon.