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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1997
Patrik Lüscher, Pfäffikon, CH;
Erich Wintermantel, Fislisbach, CH;
Boston Scientific Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Abstract
In the method proposed, the implant material in the form of a fibre is unwound from a bobbin (,) with the aid of a stream of air (,) and injected through a tube (,) into the body (,). In front of the distal opening (,) of the fibre injection tube, the implant material forms a coherent, open-pore structure in the form of a ball of fibre (,). The fibre-injection tube (,) can be a syringe needle, a catheter or an endoscope tube. This enables the implant (,) to be inserted using minimum-invasive surgery. The size and shape of the implant thus produced can be very variable and can be determined intra-operatively. Various implant materials and fibre shapes can be used. Possible applications of the implant are in the filling of body cavities, systems for the controlled release of systemically acting drugs or chemotherapeutic agents, the induction of tissue, cell transplantation and therapeutic embolization.