Abstract:
A medical implant with an external surface layer of silicone elastomer and having an open-cell structure is made by applying solid particles to the external surface layer of the implant before it is cured, curing the external surface layer with the solid particles embedded therein and then dissolving the solid particles with a solvent that does not dissolve the silicone elastomer. An implant having such an external surface layer is expected to help prevent capsular contraction, to help prevent scar formation, and to help in anchoring the implant within the body.
Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of porous cellulose particles, which have regular shape, and a capacity of sorbing 1.5-9 times of their own weight of water, a tap bulk density of less than 0.85 g/ml is provided. The process for the manufacture of these porous cellulose matrices is performed by mechanically treating of hydrolyzed cellulose in a wet stage. The cellulose matrices have preferably a size of at least 0.1 mm and a tap bulk density of 0.1-0.7 g/ml. A bioactive substance or bioactive substances could be sorbed, precipitated or sublimized into the porous structure of the matrices. The matrices can be admixed with drugs or drug containing granules in order to improve the tabletting and tablet properties and thereafter compressed.Drug loaded matrices can be used for direct compression of tablets.
Abstract:
A medical implant with an external surface layer of silicone elastomer and having an open-cell structure is made by applying solid particles to the external surface layer of the implant before it is cured, curing the external surface layer with the solid particles embedded therein and then dissolving the solid particles with a solvent that does not dissolve the silicone elastomer. An implant having such an external surface layer is expected to help prevent capsular contraction, to help prevent scar formation, and to help in anchoring the implant within the body.
Abstract:
A sheet comprising per 100 parts by volume 0-39 parts liquid capable of wetting polytetrafluoroethylene and 61-100 parts complementally of solid material comprising 5-100 volume percent polytetrafluoroethylene resin and 0-95 volume percent complementally of particulate solid filler, said sheet having a volume shrinkage of less than 39 percent on drying and heattreating, further characterized in that the polytetrafluoroethylene resin is present substantially entirely in the form of discrete lamellae less than 10 microns thick, which lamellae are molecularly oriented parallel to the faces of said structure and have a molecular orientation as determined by an A X-ray ratio of from 1 to 0.4 and a B X-ray ratio of from 0.7 to 0.05.