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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Cook Medical Technologies Llc, Bloomington, IN (US);
Inventors:
Alan George Brownlee, Salisbury, AU;
Christopher Malcolm Elvin, Tennyson, AU;
Assignee:
Cook Medical Technologies, LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 31/74 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01); A01N 25/34 (2006.01); A61B 17/08 (2006.01); A61F 13/00 (2006.01); A61L 24/10 (2006.01); C09J 189/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L 24/10 (2013.01); C09J 189/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of joining and/or sealing tissues in a surgical procedure or medical treatment, comprising the steps of: (1) applying a matrix protein, a photoactivatable metal-ligand complex and an electron acceptor to a tissue portion; (2) irradiating said tissue portion to photoactivate the photoactivatable metal-ligand complex; thereby initiating a cross-linking reaction of the matrix protein to seal said tissue portion or join said tissue portion to an adjacent tissue portion.