Patent ID: 7048753

Claim:
A bioabsorbable textile construct comprising: a preliminary article comprising a crystalline copolymer, comprising a copolymer of l-lactide and at least one cyclic monomer, said cyclic monomer comprising a liquid at or above about 40° C., wherein the l-lactide derived sequences of the polymer chain are crystallizable segments or blocks and comprise from about 60 to about 99 percent of all sequences, and wherein the copolymer has a T m of at least 150° C., exhibits a crystallinity of at least about 20%, and has an inherent viscosity of at least about 1.0 dl/g; and a coating comprising a nitrogenous copolyester having a molecular weight of less than 20,000 Da and comprising chain sequences covalently linked to a central nitrogen of a tertiary amine, the chain sequences comprising from about 90 to about 98 percent by mole of caprolactone-based units and from about 2 to about 10 percent by mole of glycolide-based units.