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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2006
Applicants:
Klaus-dieter Kühn, Marburg, DE;
Sebastian Vogt, Erfurt, DE;
Matthias Schnabelrauch, Jena, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Heraeus Kulzer GmbH, Hanau, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An antibiotic coating of implants is described, which is characterized in that the coating comprises at least one saturated, organic, hydrophobic, low molecular matrix former whose melting point is in the temperature range of 45° C. to 100° C., in which a low molecular, hydrophobic additive is dissolved and that an antibiotic/antibiotics is/are suspended in the mixture of matrix former and additive and/or in which an antibiotic/antibiotics miscible with a mixture of matrix former and additive is/are dissolved.