DEGRADABLE IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES
4017/KOLNP/2007 A (4017/KOLNP/2007)
Filed on 2007-10-17
Publication date 2008-05-30
Devices and methods are provided for an implantable medical device which is degradable over a clinically relevant period of time. The medical devices may have the form of implants, graft implants, vascular implants, non vascular implants, wound closure implants, sutures, drug delivery implants, biologic delivery implants, urinary tract implants, inter-uterine implants, organ implants, bone implants including bone plates, bone screws, dental implants, spinal disks, or the like. In preferred embodiments, the implantable medical device comprises an implantable luminal prosthesis, such as vascular and non-vascular stents and stents grafts.
Applicant
ELIXIR MEDICAL CORPORATION
870 HERMOSA DRIVE SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA U.S.A.
Inventor
BRETT CRYER, VINAYAK D. BHAT, JOHN YAN, MOTASIM SIRHAN
International Information
Classification
A61F 2/06
Publication number
WO 2006/108065
Application date
2006-04-04
Application number
PCT/US2006/012725