Medical device having anti-infective and contraceptive...

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A61L 27/00 (2006.01) A61K 9/00 (2006.01) A61L 27/54 (2006.01) A61L 29/00 (2006.01) A61L 29/16 (2006.01) A61L 31/00 (2006.01) A61L 31/16 (2006.01)

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CA 2335055

There is disclosed a medical device for implantation that acts to prevent transmission of infectious agents. Specifically, the present invention provides implantable devices, such as catheters or living skin matrices or wound dressings, for insertion into various body cavities or over wound sites to confer to the site microbicidal or virucidal activity. Devices in the disclosure designed as vaginal inserts also exhibit contraceptive spermicidal activity. The coated devices or devices having the inventive polymeric material interspersed throughout are formed into appropriate shapes according to their contemplated uses (such as catheters or Foley catheters). Further, the present invention provides devices for providing therapeutic anti- microbial activity into an infected body cavity or on an infected wound site.

L'invention concerne un dispositif médical, destiné à être implanté, dont le rôle est d'empêcher la transmission des agents infectieux. En particulier, la présente invention concerne des dispositifs implantables, tels que des cathéters, des matrices de peau vivante ou des pansements, destinés à être insérés dans diverses cavités corporelles ou disposés sur des plaies afin de conférer auxdits sites une activité microbicide ou virocide. Les dispositifs de l'invention conçus sous la forme de comprimés vaginaux présentent, de surcroît, une activité spermicide contraceptive. Les dispositifs enduits ou imprégnés de la matière polymère de l'invention peuvent se présenter sous diverses formes, appropriées en fonction de leurs utilisations prévues (comme cathéters ou comme sondes de Foley). En outre, la présente invention concerne des dispositifs destinés à conférer une activité antimicrobienne thérapeutique à une cavité corporelle ou à une plaie infectée.

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