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Ureteral Stent

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|Implantable or insertable medical device resistant to microbial growth and biofilm formation
| Disclosed are implantable or insertable medical devices that provide resistance to microbial growth on and in the environment of the device and resistance to microbial adhesion and biofilm formation on the device. In particular, the invention discloses implantable or insertable medical devices that comprise at least one biocompatible matrix polymer region, an antimicrobial agent for providing resistance to microbial growth and a microbial adhesion/biofilm synthesis inhibitor for inhibiting the attachment of microbes and the synthesis and accumulation of biofilm on the surface of the medical device. Also disclosed are methods of manufacturing such devices under conditions that substantially prevent preferential partitioning of any of said bioactive agents to a surface of the biocompatible matrix polymer and substantially prevent chemical modification of said bioactive agents
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| INTERMEDICAT GMBH
| Uretral catheter
| The catheter has at the bladder-side end of the catheter tube (10) a non- return valve in the form of a film valve (16). The film valve (16) consists of two thin-wall films which are laid flat upon one another and are glued or welded to one another at their lateral ends. It prevents the return of urine and the flushing of bacteria from the bladder back to the kidney. Drainage issues at the bladder-side end of the catheter are omitted, in order to prevent incrustation phenomena.
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