Patent ID: 8367747

Claim:
A surgical article or component thereof comprising a polyurethane, polyurea, polyamideurethane or polyureaurethane, formed by polymerizing a biocompatible and bioabsorbable polyisocyanate of Formula I: with a compound selected from a polyol, an amine, and an amide-diol; wherein: R is alkylene-[C(R 4 )(R 5 )] s -alkylene-, wherein: (1) one or more of the —CH 2 — moieties in one or more alkylene chain portions of R are optionally replaced by —O— or —S—; or (2) one or more of the —CH 2 —CH 2 — moieties in the alkylene chain portions of R are optionally replaced by —C(═O)—O— or —O—C(═O)—; each R 1 is independently [—C(R 2 )(R 3 )—] p -Z; each Z is independently alkoxy, aralkyloxy, —C(═O)—H, halogen, —C(═O)—OH, or —NO 2 ; each R 2 and R 3 is independently H or alkyl; R 4 is H, OR 6 or CH 2 OR; R 5 is H or CH 2 OR; each R 6 is independently: each X is —(CH 2 CH 2 O) z —CH 2 —C(═O)—O—; each Y is —O—C(═O)—CH 2 —(OCH 2 CH 2 ) z —; each a and b is independently an integer from about 1 to about 6; n is an integer from about 0 to about 4; p is an integer from about 0 to about 10; s is the integer 0 or 1; and each z is 1.