Poly-med, Inc.

Jennifer Cartledge

Michael Scott Taylor

Kenneth David Gray

Kenneth W Clinkscales

James Hyde

Brad Johns

Elizabeth Elvington

Medical implants that include a containment layer surrounding, or surrounded by, a biodegradable medical device provide the benefit that pieces formed during degradation of the medical device are held within a constrained place and thus do not causes injury to a hosts.

Medical implants having managed biodegradation

Implantable medical devices have zones of high in vivo stability that are adjacent to zones of relatively low in vivo stability, so that when these medical devices are implanted into a host, the zones of low in vivo stability degrade first and allow the formation of independent segments of relatively intact high in vivo stability bands that are sufficiently small that they may pass from the host in a non-harmful manner.

Tubular implants with controlled biodegradation

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Seneca, SC, United States of America

Jennifer Cartledge