47 results about "Surgical sealant" patented technology

An applicator for dispensing uniform thickness layers of liquid to surfaces and especially surgical sealants to surgical sites to create, in situ, a surgical incise drape is disclosed. The applicator employs a supported thin layer of foam which achieves layer thickness which are substantially independent of the pressure applied to the applicator during use. Methods of using the applicator are also disclosed.

Biocompatible crosslinked polymers, and methods for their preparation and use, are disclosed in which the biocompatible crosslinked polymers are formed from water soluble precursors having electrophilic and nucleophilic functional groups capable of reacting and crosslinking in situ. Methods for making the resulting biocompatible crosslinked polymers biodegradable or not are provided, as are methods for controlling the rate of degradation. The crosslinking reactions may be carried out in situ on organs or tissues or outside the body. Applications for such biocompatible crosslinked polymers and their precursors include controlled delivery of drugs, prevention of post-operative adhesions, coating of medical devices such as vascular grafts, wound dressings and surgical sealants. Visualization agents may be included with the crosslinked polymers.

An absorbable modified starch hemostatic material and preparation thereof, wherein the hemostatic material is etherified starch, or a mixture of one or more etherified starches, crosslinked starches. The modified starch has a molecular weight of 15,000 - 10,000,000, a particle size of 10 - 1000µm, and a water absorption rate of 1 - 100. The biocompatible hemostatic material can directly effect on the wound with blood, concentrate the blood quickly to congulate blood; moreover, the gelatiniform mixture formed with blood has high viscosity, which can plug damaged tissue and blood vessel. The biocompatible hemostatic material is easy to swell in the water and easy to be washed so that the residue can be reduced; it is stable, not easy to decompose, and has long shelf life and storage advantage. The biocompatible hemostatic material can also be used as absorbable surgical antisticking material, promoting tissue healing material, surgical sealant and wound no-joint tissue adhesive.

Biodegradable and biocompatible polymeric hydrogels based on the mixtures of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(ethylene glycol) macromers, and methods for their preparation and use, are disclosed. The polymerization may be carried out in situ on organs or tissues or outside the body. Applications for such biocompatible crosslinked hydrogels include prevention of post-operative adhesions, surgical sealants, embolic therapies, controlled delivery of drugs, coating of medical devices such as vascular grafts, wound dressings and other medical applications.

The invention relates to biocompatible modified starch sponge and use of the biocompatible modified starch sponge as a hemostatic material, an anti-adhesion material, a material for promoting tissue healing, a surgical sealant or a wound tissue adhesive. Modified starch is one or a combination of more than one among pre-gelatinized starch, acid modified starch, dextrin, oxidized starch, esterified starch, etherified starch, crosslinked starch, grafted starch and composite modified starch. The sponge is prepared by vacuum freeze drying of the modified starch and other biocompatible hemostatic material, coagulant, plasticizer and so on. The biocompatible modified starch sponge has the advantages that the biocompatible modified starch sponge has flexible form and good biocompatibility, can be directly acted on bloody wound surfaces, avoids the conditions of hypersusceptibility, infection and difficult healing of wounds caused by adoption of hemostatic materials such as animal source / human source collagens, obviously improves the water absorption speed, has larger viscosity, forms a zymoplastic mixture which has good adhesion, calks broken tissues and blood vessels, and is used for hemostasis of active hemorrhage.

Biocompatible crosslinked polymers, and methods for their preparation and use, are disclosed in which the biocompatible crosslinked polymers are formed from water soluble precursors having electrophilic and nucleophilic functional groups capable of reacting and crosslinking in situ. Methods for making the resulting biocompatible crosslinked polymers biodegradable or not are provided, as are methods for controlling the rate of degradation. The crosslinking reactions may be carried out in situ on organs or tissues or outside the body. Applications for such biocompatible crosslinked polymers and their precursors include controlled delivery of drugs, prevention of post-operative adhesions, coating of medical devices such as vascular grafts, wound dressings and surgical sealants. Visualization agents may be included with the crosslinked polymers.

Endolumenally sealing a zone around the puncture and dilation area of a stent-graft fenestration or sealing the juncture between two lumens with an expandable sealant delivery device. In exemplary embodiments, an expandable sealant delivery device includes a catheter mounted balloon, which has a microporous membrane or a plurality of pores suitable for delivering a surgical sealant.

Biocompatible crosslinked polymers, and methods for their preparation and use, are disclosed in which the biocompatible crosslinked polymers are formed from water soluble precursors having electrophilic and nucleophilic groups capable of reacting and crosslinking in situ. Methods for making the resulting biocompatible crosslinked polymers biodegradable or not are provided, as are methods for controlling the rate of degradation. The crosslinking reactions may be carried out in situ on organs or tissues or outside the body. Applications for such biocompatible crosslinked polymers and their precursors include controlled delivery of drugs, prevention of post-operative adhesions, coating of medical devices such as vascular grafts, wound dressings and surgical sealants.

A sheath introducer is inserted through the skin and into a body lumen, e.g., the femoral artery, for a medical procedure. Upon completion of the medical procedure, the sheath introducer is partially withdrawn from the body lumen so that at least one through-wall hole in a body region of the sheath introducer is positioned outside the body lumen, but under the skin. An opening in a distal end tip of the sheath introducer is sealed so that no blood is flowing into the sheath introducer the after sheath introducer is partially withdrawn. A surgical sealant is injected into the sheath introducer and flows out of the at least one through-wall hole and surrounds the access site. After injection of the surgical sealant, the sheath introducer is removed. The surgical sealant seals the puncture and minimizes any blood flow from the body lumen through the puncture.

The invention relates to a heart-sealing gel and a preparation method thereof. Specifically speaking, a pyrrole-capped hyperbranched polyaminoester monomer (HPAE-Py) containing dopamine groups and gelatin (Geln) are dissolved into PBS (phosphate buffer solution), the pH value of which is 7.4, so that HPAE-Py / Geln mixed solution is prepared; and aqueous ferric chloride solution is added into the HPAE-Py / Geln mixed solution, so that gel precursor solution is prepared. Ferric chloride can ensue the complexing and self-polymerization of dopamine in the HPAE-Py polymer monomer, so that pyrrole in HPAE-Py is polymerized and complexed with the gelatin, and ultimately, the conductive sticky hydrogel is constructed. At the initial stage of formation, the hydrogel disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of softness and stickiness, and can be applied on a tissue wound, preventing adverse fluid leakage; pyrrole groups are polymerized into polypyrrole, which serves as crosslinking sites to consolidate a gel network structure; the gel has high strength and electrical conductivity; the gel has good biocompatibility, can be degraded, and can be used as a surgical sealant for, for example, wound sealing after cardiac surgery.

ClotFoam is a surgical sealant and hemostatic agent designed to be used in cases of non-compressible hemorrhage. It can be applied in the operating room through laparoscopic ports, or directly over lacerated tissue in laparotomy procedures or outside the operating room through a mixing needle and / or a spray injection method following abdominal, chest, extremities or other intracavitary severe trauma to promote hemostasis. Its crosslinking technology generates an adhesive three-dimensional polymeric network or scaffold that carries a fibrin sealant required for hemostasis. When mixed, Clotfoam produces a foam that spreads throughout a body cavity reaching the lacerated tissue to seal tissue and promote the coagulation cascade.The viscoelastic attachment properties of the foam as well as the rapid formation of a fibrin clot that ensure that the sealant remains at the site of application without being washed away by blood or displaced by movement of the target tissue.

A sealant composition, suitable for surgical or dental use, comprises a sealant and, dispersed therein, one or more particles of a material which is prestressed and / or capable of undergoing expansion or contraction.

An applicator for dispensing uniform thickness layers of liquid to surfaces and especially surgical sealants to surgical sites to create, in situ, a surgical incise drape is disclosed. The applicator employs a supported thin layer of foam which achieves layer thickness which are substantially independent of the pressure applied to the applicator during use. Methods of using the applicator are also disclosed.

Endolumenally sealing a zone around the puncture and dilation area of a stent-graft fenestration or sealing the juncture between two lumens with an expandable sealant delivery device. In exemplary embodiments, an expandable sealant delivery device includes a catheter mounted balloon, which has a microporous membrane or a plurality of pores suitable for delivering a surgical sealant.

The present invention provides a non-liquid biomaterial that may be used as a surgical sealant, a suture support, a blood flow controller, an adhesion reducing agent, an adhesion preventing agent, a tissue support, a tissue filler, a wound dressing or a combination thereof. The non-liquid biomaterial may comprise a blood derived material such as plasma, platelet poor plasma, platelet rich plasma or a material derived from blood containing tissue aspirate, such as bone marrow aspirate, a protein binding agent and a polymerizing agent. Methods for making and using the non-liquid biomaterial are also provided.

The invention discloses composition for promoting regeneration of dental pulp and dentin. The composition comprises a PDGF (platelet-derived growth factor) and a scaffold, wherein the PDGF adopts one or more of PDGF-BB, PDGF-AB and PDGF-AA; the scaffold adopts one or more of alginate, Arabic gum, guar gum, xanthan gum, gelatin, chitin, chitosan, chitosan acetate, chitosan lactate, chondroitin sulfate, N,O-carboxymethyl chitosan, glucan, fibrin glue, fibrinogen, natural blood clots, glycerol, hyaluronic acid, gourmet powder, glucosamine, proteoglycan, starch, lactic acid, poloxamer, sodium glycero-phosphate, collagen, glycogen, a keratin filament, a synthetic surgical sealant and a synthetic surgical adhesive. The composition can be conveniently injected into a dental pulp cavity required to be treated, repairing cells enter the dental pulp cavity and play the repair role under combined action of the PDGF and the scaffold, so that the diseased dental pulp and dentin are regenerated and repaired.