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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
The Spectranetics Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Patrick Ruane, Redwood City, CA (US);
Cameron Wilson, Moss Beach, CA (US);
Steven Ummel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Arlene Alcantara, San Jose, CA (US);
Jackie Joe Hancock, Cork, IE;
Qi Zhan, Antioch, CA (US);
THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATION, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Abstract
A method and device for local delivery of a water-insoluble therapeutic agent to the tissue of a normal or diseased body lumen is disclosed. An expandable structure of a medical disposable device, such as a balloon of a balloon catheter, is coated with a non-durable coating which includes an amphiphilic polymer or copolymer, in embodiments polyethylene glycol, having a substantially water-insoluble therapeutic agent dispersed therein. In some embodiments, the coating may also include iodine. The medical disposable device is inserted into a body lumen, and expanded to contact the non-durable coating against the body lumen and deliver the substantially water-insoluble therapeutic agent to the body lumen tissue.