Hyunjoon Kim, Seung Ho Lee, Adam Wentworth, Sahab Babaee, Kaitlyn Wong, Joy E Collins, Jacqueline Chu, Keiko Ishida, Johannes Kuosmanen, Joshua Jenkins, Kaitlyn Hess, Aaron Lopes, Joshua Morimoto, Qianqian Wan, Shaunak V Potdar, Ronan McNally, Caitlynn Tov, Na Yoon Kim, Alison Hayward, Daniel Wollin, Robert Langer, Giovanni Traverso
Intravesical instillation is an efficient drug delivery route for the local treatment of various urological conditions. Nevertheless, intravesical instillation is associated with several challenges, including pain, urological infection, and frequent clinic visits for catheterization; these difficulties support the need for a simple and easy intravesical drug delivery platform. Here, we propose a novel biodegradable intravesical device capable of long-term, local drug delivery without a retrieval procedure. The intravesical device is composed of drug encapsulating biodegradable polycaprolactone (PCL) microcapsules and connected by a bioabsorbable Polydioxanone (PDS) suture with NdFeB magnets in the end...
September 2022: Biomaterials