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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2004
Medical articles having therapeutic-agent-containing regions formed from coalesced polymer particles
Marlene C. Schwarz, Auburndale, MA (US);
Robert E. Richard, Wrentham, MA (US);
Sheng-ping Zhong, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Marlene C. Schwarz, Auburndale, MA (US);
Robert E. Richard, Wrentham, MA (US);
Sheng-Ping Zhong, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
Medical articles, such as drug-releasing patches or implantable or insertable medical devices, which are made up of a medical article substrate and a therapeutic-agent-containing region. The therapeutic-agent-containing region is made up of (i) a water-dispersible therapeutic agent and (ii) coalesced polymer particles supplied by an aqueous dispersion. Also described are methods of forming such medical articles, and methods of releasing a therapeutic agent within a patient using such medical articles.