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Title:
DRUG-DELIVERY ENDOVASCULAR STENT AND METHOD FOR TREATING RESTENOSIS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2008279278
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To disclose an intravascular stent and method for inhibiting restenosis, following vascular injury.

The stent has an expandable, linked-filament body and a drug-release coating formed on the stent-body filaments, for contacting the vessel injury site. The coating releases a restenosis-inhibiting amount of the macrocyclic triene with alkyl group substitution at the carbon position 40 of the compound. The stent, when used to treat a vascular injury, gives good protection against clinical restenosis.


Inventors:
SCHULZE JOHN E
BETTS RONALD E
SAVAGE DOUGLAS R
Application Number:
JP2008209130A
Publication Date:
November 20, 2008
Filing Date:
August 15, 2008
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Assignee:
BIOSENSORS INTERNATL GROUP LTD
International Classes:
A61K9/10; A61L31/00; A61F2/90; A61K9/00; A61K9/06; A61K9/20; A61K9/70; A61K31/4353; A61K31/436; A61K47/32; A61K47/34; A61L31/08; A61L31/10; A61L31/16; A61P9/10; A61P9/14; A61P17/02; A61P29/00; A61P35/00; C07D498/18; A61F2/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2000051367A2000-02-22
JP2000507226A2000-06-13
JP2000513988A2000-10-24
JPH1157020A1999-03-02
Foreign References:
WO2002026281A12002-04-04
WO2001045763A12001-06-28
WO1997037617A11997-10-16
WO2002009617A12002-02-07
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hideto Asamura
Hajime Asamura
Shinmura Morio
Naganuma Akio