Heraeus Kulzer Gmbh

Heraeus Medical Gmbh

Technische Universitat Graz

Medizinische Universitat Graz

Medical University of Graz Mug

Klaus-Dieter Kuhn

Sebastian Vogt

Annelie Weinberg

Peter J Uggowitzer

Hubert Büchner

Hubert Buchner

Clemens Ebner

Franz Stelzer

Frank Wiesbrock

Jorg Loffler

A local system for the release of active principle is described which consists of approximately spherical or rotation symmetrical bodies which are composed essentially of polymethyl methacrylate or polymethyl methacrylate co-methyl acrylate, zirconium dioxide or barium sulphate and one or more pharmaceutical active principles, in particular antibiotics, and which are produced by radical polymerization, radical polymerization activators effective in the temperature range of 10-80&#xb0; C. or residues of these polymerization activators from the groups of aromatic amines, heavy metal salts and barbiturates not being contained therein. A process for the production of the local system for the release of active principle in the case of which

Local system for the release of active principle and process for its manufacture

A surgical suture material with an antimicrobial surface is described, the surface exhibiting a coating containing a) at least one fatty acid, b) octenidine dichloride and/or dequalinium chloride and c) optionally oligomeric lactic acid esters. In addition, a process for coating surgical suture material is described which is characterized by the fact that the thread material is wetted with a homogeneous methanolic solution of octenidine dichloride and/or dequalinium chloride and subsequently the methanol is evaporated, a coating forming on the thread surface.

Surgical suture material with an antimicrobial surface and process for providing an antimicrobial coating on surgical suture material

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Marburg-Elnhausen, Germany

Klaus-Dieter Kuhn