Long-term in vitro stability assessment of polycarbonate urethane micro catheters: Resistance to oxidation and stress cracking

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 314-324

  Chandy, Thomas ^a   Van Hee, Justin ^a   Nettekoven, William ^a   Johnson, Jay ^b  

^a Transoma Medical   (United States)

^b SuperDimension Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental stress cracking (ESC); Metal ion oxidation (MIO); Pellethane; Polycarbonate urethane; Stability

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRAIN; BULK EROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CRACKING (ESC); IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; METAL ION OXIDATION (MIO); NUMBER AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PELLETHANE; POLYCARBONATE URETHANE; STRESS CRACKING; SURFACE DEGRADATION; SURFACE EROSION; SURFACE LAYERS; WEIGHT DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT-AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

CATHETERS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEGRADATION; ELECTROSLAG PROCESS; EROSION; ETHERS; GELATION; GELS; HYDROGEN; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; PITTING; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

COBALT CHLORIDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; POLY(CARBONATE URETHANE); POLYETHERURETHAN; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATHETER; DEGRADATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT; POLYMERS; POLYURETHANES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; URETHANE;

EID: 65949118899     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.31218     Document Type: Article

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