IMPLANTABLE DEVICE CONTAINING RESORBABLE MATRIX MATERIAL AND ANTIPROLIFERATIVE DRUGS FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING FAILURE OF HEMODIALYSIS VASCULAR ACCESS AND OTHER VASCULAR GRAFTS AND ITS METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a therapeutic implant, apparatus and methods useful for preventing, suppressing (inhibiting) or treating failure of hemodialysis vascular access and other vascular grafts.

SOLUTION: The apparatus relates a prosthetic device generally placed on the outside surface of the vessel or graft which then elutes antiproliferative drugs or agents from a drug-eluting matrix material. Methods of perivascular antiproliferative drug administration also are disclosed.

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