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Antimicrobial fabric and medical graft of the fabric

  • US 6,296,863 B1
  • Filed: 11/23/1998
  • Issued: 10/02/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A porous, flexible, medical graft comprising:

  • (a) fabric material in a generally tubular shape; and

    (b) ceramic particles bound to the fabric material, the particles comprising antimicrobial metal cations ion-exchanged thereon, wherein some or all of the ceramic particles are exteriorly exposed to permit entry into the particles of water and cations, thereby effecting an ion exchange reaction, which releases antibiotic cations from the ceramic particles in an antimicrobially effective amount.

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