Patent ID: 9078951
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: A61B,A61L,A61M,A61P

Abstract:
1. A scoring or cutting angioplasty balloon catheter carrying at least on a portion of its surface a therapeutically effective amount of at least one oxidation-insensitive drug and an amount of at least one lipophilic antioxidant that will protect the drug from premature loss during delivery to an angioplasty site and that is 3-100% by weight of the drug, wherein the at least one oxidation-insensitive drug is selected from the group consisting of taxanes, thalidomide, statins, corticoids and lipophilic derivatives of corticoids, and the at least one lipophilic antioxidant is selected from the group consisting of nordihydroguaiaretic acid, resveratrol and propyl gallate; and an amount of polymer that is 0-20% by weight of the oxidation-insensitive drug.