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Drug coated balloon catheters for nonvascular strictures

  • US 10,675,386 B2
  • Filed: 02/05/2019
  • Issued: 06/09/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for treating sinusitis, a sinus stricture, or a nasal lumen, the method comprising:

  • inserting a balloon catheter into a target site, wherein the target site is the sinus stricture or the nasal lumen, the balloon catheter comprisinga coating layer overlying an exterior surface of a balloon that is inflatably expandable, the coating layer comprisingan initial drug load comprising a therapeutic agent chosen from rapamycin, a rapamycin analogue, and a combination thereof, wherein the initial drug load has a density of the therapeutic agent in the coating layer of 1 to 20 μ

    g per mm2 of the exterior surface of the balloon, andan additive comprisinga water-soluble first additive that comprises more than one hydroxyl group, wherein the water-soluble first additive has a molecular weight of 50 to 750; and

    a water-soluble second additive that is different than the first water-soluble additive and that comprises more than one hydroxyl group, wherein the water-soluble second additive has a molecular weight of 750 to 1,000;

    inflating the balloon at least until the coating layer contacts walls of the target site to transfer at least some of the coating layer to the walls of the target site, wherein the coating layer contacts the walls of the target site for an inflation period that is from 0.1 minutes to 30 minutes;

    deflating the balloon at completion of the inflation period; and

    withdrawing the balloon catheter from the target site, wherein after the withdrawing of the balloon catheter from the target site the balloon has thereon a residual drug amount that is less than or equal to 45% of the initial drug load, and after the inflation period the walls of the target site comprise an amount of the therapeutic agent that is 0.1% to 25% of the initial drug load.

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