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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2017
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Terry Morgan, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Beth Sersen, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Daniel Schulz-Jander, Oakland, CA (US);
Joseph Traina, Napa, CA (US);
Brian Graham, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Carol Sullivan, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Gerald Hodgkinson, Guilford, CT (US);
COVIDIEN LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to medical devices, and methods for producing and using the devices. In embodiments, the medical device may be a buttress including a porous substrate possessing a therapeutic layer of a chemotherapeutic agent and optional excipient(s) thereon. By varying the form of chemotherapeutic agents and excipients, the medical devices may be used to treat both the area to which the medical device is attached as well as tissue at a distance therefrom.