Patent ID: 9173977
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: A61B,A61L,A61M,A61P

Abstract:
1. A scoring or cutting balloon catheter carrying at least on a portion of a surface of the scoring or cutting balloon catheter a coating composition comprising at least one drug or drug preparation and at least one lipophilic antioxidant that will protect the drug from premature loss during delivery to the angioplasty site and that is 3-100% by weight of the at least one drug or drug preparation, wherein the at least one drug or drug preparation is selected from the group consisting of a Limus drug, a cell proliferation inhibitor, and an inhibitor of neovascularization, the at least one lipophilic antioxidant is selected from the group consisting of butylated hydroxytoluene, butylated hydroxyanisole, nordihydroguaiaretic acid, ascorbyl palmitate, and propyl gallate, and wherein a combination of a Limus drug with butylated hydroxytoluene as the lipophilic antioxidant is excluded.