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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:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
May. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Clive M Elson, Halifax, CA;
Assignee:
Chitogenics, Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; C08B / ; A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 55 ; 514-2 ; 514-8 ; 514 54 ; 536 20 ; 604 57 ; 424422 ; 424423 ; 424424 ; 424426 ; 424488 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of treating patients to minimize post-surgical adhesions and a kit useful in the method of the invention. The method is based on the timing that N,O-carboxymethylchitosan (NOCC) has advantageous properties as a wound healing lavage and coating. A NOCC solution is particularly effective as a post-surgical lavage and when used in conjunction with a NOCC gel coating, wound healing rate is unchanged while the number and severity of adhesions in greatly reduced.