Patent ID: 9642658
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,A61K

Claim:
1. An agent-delivery device for delivering an agent to a designated site of action adjacent to a bone in a body of a patient, the agent-delivery device comprising: a medical implant including a fracture fixation plate having a lateral dimension and a depth dimension, the fracture fixation plate adapted to be secured to the bone; an elongated body member having a longitudinal axis and an inner surface, the body member comprising a projection on an inner surface of the base portion, wherein a distance the projection extends from the inner surface of the base portion is less than a distance from the longitudinal edges of the base portion to the longitudinal edges of the legs, the distance from the longitudinal edges of the base portion to the longitudinal edges of the legs being substantially equal to the distance the projection extends from the inner surface of the base portion plus the depth dimension of the fracture fixation plate; and an agent-delivery medium associated with the body member, the agent-delivery medium including a therapeutic agent for treating the body of the patient, and a carrier for the therapeutic agent, wherein the body member is adapted to be secured to the fracture fixation plate such that the projection operatively engages the fracture fixation plate for spacing the inner surface of the base portion from the fracture fixation plate forming a channel between the inner surface of the base portion and the fracture fixation plate for accommodating the carrier, and wherein the agent-delivery medium is configured to release the therapeutic agent after implantation in the body of the patient.