Patent ID: 6010692
Filing Date: 2000-01-04
Classification: A61F,A61K,A61L

Abstract:
A method of preventing post-operative surgical adhesions of tissue and protecting tissue and preventing tissue damage in surgery comprising providing said tissue surfaces involved in said surgery with a wet coating of a physiologically acceptable aqueous solution of a hydrophilic polymeric material prior to manipulation of said tissue during said surgery, wherein:a) said polymeric material is hyaluronic acid having a molecular weight from about 50,000 to less than about 500,000, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, complex thereof or mixtures thereof; andb) the concentration in said aqueous solution of said polymeric material is in the range of from about 0.01% to about 15% by weight; said molecular weight and concentration having values such that said aqueous solution is capable of providing wet coatings on said tissue.