Meadox Medicals, Inc.

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Birendra K Patnaik

Richard J Zdrahala

David J Lentz

Horng-Ban Lin

Disclosed are implantable medical devices with enhanced patency. Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene small caliber vascular grafts coated with polymer bound bio-active agents that exhibit enhanced patency are disclosed. The polymer bound bio-active agents can include anti-thrombogenic agents, antibiotics, antibacterial agents and antiviral agents. Methods of preparing same are also provided.

Method for imparting a bio-active coating

Disclosed are bio-active polymer coatings. More particularly, improved bio-active polymer coating are disclosed which include bio-active molecules attached to polymer backbones via spacers having reactive nitrogen groups. Also disclosed are novel reaction schemes for producing same.

Composition and process for preparing biocompatible polymer coatings

Disclosed are bio-active coating compositions for polymeric substrates. In particular, a bio-active coating is described which is the reaction product formed by providing a polymer backbone with at least one free isocyanate group, wherein the isocyanate group is pendant from the polymer backbone. There is further provided a hydrophilic, amine-terminated spacer which has at least one amine group at its first and second ends. One of the amine groups of the spacer is reacted with one or more of the isocyanate groups on the polymer backbone in the presence of an optional catalyst agent. A bio-active agent is then covalently bonded onto an unreacted end of the spacer in the presence of a catalyst. Also disclosed are coating compositions for a substrate and methods of preparing same.

Polymer coatings grafted with polyethylene oxide chains containing covalently bonded bio-active agents

ePTFE small caliber vascular grafts with significant patency enhancement via a surface coating which contains covalently bonded heparin

Polymer coatings grafted with polyethylene oxide chains containing

A bio-active material such as heparin, urokinase or streptokinase is bonded via a hydrophilic spacer to a functionality on the surface of a hydrophobic, bio-compatible polymeric substrate to provide a coating of the bio-active material on the surface. The substrate surface is preferably the surface of an implantable medical device such as a vascular graft. An amine and/or hydroxyl functionality on the substrate surface is reacted with an isocyanate group at an end of the hydrophilic spacer to bond the spacer to the substrate, and the bio-active material is reacted with an isocyanate group at another end of the spacer to bond the bio-active material to the spacer. Polymeric substrates include expanded polytetrafluoroethylene and polyethylene terephthalate, and the hydroxyl and/or amine functionality may be provided on the substrate surface by plasma glow discharge. A preferred spacer is an isocyanate end-blocked poly(ethylene oxide). Reaction of the functionality of the substrate with the isocyanate group of the spacer may be catalyzed with dibutyltindilaurate, and reaction of the bio-active material with the isocyanate group of the spacer may be catalyzed with 1-(3 -dimethylaminopropyl)-3-ethylcarbodiimide.

Bonding bio-active materials to expanded polytetrafluoroethylene or

Process for preparing polymer coatings grafted with polyethylene oxide

Disclosed are bio-active polymer coatings. More particularly, improved bio-active polymer coating are disclosed which include bio-active molecules attached to polyurethane backbones via amine-terminated spacers. Also disclosed are novel reaction schemes for producing same.

Polyurethanes grafted with polyethylene oxide chains containing

A bio-active coating composition is described which is the reaction product of two different reactions. The first reaction includes reacting a bio-compatible polymer backbone having .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carbonyl functionality with a hydrophilic spacer having at least one reactive functional group at its first and second ends. In this reaction, one of the reactive functional groups of the spacer reacts with a .beta.-carbon of the carbonyl functionality to bond the spacer to the polymer backbone. The second reaction includes reacting a bio-active agent with a remaining unreacted reactive functional group of the spacer in the presence of an optional catalyst to covalently bind the bio-active agent to the spacer.

Process for preparing covalently bound-heparin containing

A medical device having a bio-active coating is prepared by providing a polymeric substrate having hydroxyl and/or amine functionality on a surface thereof and applying the bio-active coating to the surface. The bio-active coating is the reaction product of two different reactions. The first reaction includes reacting the polymeric substrate with a hydrophilic, isocyanate-terminated spacer having at least one isocyanate group at its first and second ends. The second reaction includes reacting a remaining, unreacted isocyanate-terminated end of the spacer with a bio-active agent to bond the bio-active agent to the spacer.

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Chester, NJ, United States of America

Birendra K Patnaik