| abstract |
This invention relates to stents coated with hydrophilic polymers containing S-nitrosothiols, which are able to provide local delivery of both nitric oxide and S-nitrosothiols by diffusion. This device is intended for coronary angioplasty applications with the purpose of inhibiting acute and chronic restenosis and refers to processes of stent coating with hydrophilic polymers containing incorporated S-nitrosothiols. This invention refers to an intracoronary implant device used in medical procedures, and introduces new S nitrosothiol-eluting stents coated with hydrophilic polymer multilayers. The hydrophilic polymers used for coating are polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylpirrolidone and polyvinyl alcohol/polyvinylpirrolidone, polyvinyl alcohol/polyethylene glycol, polyvinylpirrolidone/polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol/polyvinylpirrolidone/polyethylene glycol blends. The S-nitrosothiols incorporated to the polymer coatings are mainly primary S-nitrosothiols, characterized by the fact of the nitric oxide (NO) molecule being covalently bound to a sulfur (S) atom which, in turn, is linked to a primary carbon in the molecule's structure, thus constituting the S—NO chemical group. The coating processes include immersion of the stents in polymer solutions containing S-nitrosothiols and nebulization processes of the polymer solutions containing S-nitrosothiols onto the stent surface. |