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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2006
Applicants:
Gerd Bayer, Erlangen, DE;
Markus Nagel, Forchheim, DE;
Alexander Borck, Aurachtal, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegeraete GmbH & Co., Ingenieurbuero Berlin, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 33/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention concerns methods of coating stents and stents produced in accordance therewith. The object of the invention is to provide methods of coating stents with a polysaccharide layer which has improved adhesion capacity on the substrate surface of the implant, and to afford correspondingly functionalized stents. That is achieved inter alia by covalent bonding of a non-crosslinked hyaluronic acid to a substrate surface of the stent with the formation of hyaluronic acid layer and crosslinking of the hyaluronic acid layer.