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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Geoffrey Collins, Belvedere, CA (US);
Winston Wicomb, Corte Madera, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H / ; A61H / ; A61H / ; A61H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424606 ; 424679 ; 424680 ; 514-2 ; 514 61 ; 514 53 ; 514723 ;
Abstract
An organ preservation solution, particularly valuable in the preservation of mammalian hearts intended for transplantation, in aqueous solution, at least about 3% by weight of polypropylene glycol having an average molecular weight of at least about 15,000 daltons and being free of material retained by 10 micron filtration, a buffer buffering the pH of the solution perfusate to a value in the range of about 7.1 to about 7.5, and an impermeant composition for retarding the passage of water across cell membranes of an organ treated with the solution.