METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COATING SUTURES

• Main Authors: PRAJAPATI, RITA, BOWMAN, STEVEN, YANG, CHUNLIN, DE DEYNE, PATRICK, TIMMER, MARK, HAMMER, JOSEPH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 16.04.2009
• Subjects: APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; DIAGNOSIS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROCESSES FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TOSURFACES, IN GENERAL; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; SURGERY; TRANSPORTING

Intra-operative coating of sutures with therapeutic proteins, particularly growth factors such as rhGDF-5. including contacting a suture to a device containing a therapeutic agent, methods of repairing soft tissue defects with coated sutures and composite sutures coated with therapeutic agents. Cette invention concerne un enrobage peropératoire de sutures avec des protéines thérapeutiques, plus particulièrement, des facteurs de croissance, tels que rhGDF-5. Le procédé décrit dans cette invention consiste à mettre en contact une suture et un dispositif contenant un agent thérapeutique. Cette invention concerne également des méthodes permettant de réparer des tissus mous endommagés au moyen de sutures enrobées et de sutures composites enrobées avec des agents thérapeutiques.