Sodium Hyaluronate is an important component of intercellular substance, eye vitreous body, joint fluid and other connective tissue. Sodium Hyaluronate can be used as viscoelastic agent inintraocular lens implantation operation, as the filler in the osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and otherjoint surgery, as a medium widely used in eye drops, it also can be used to prevent postoperative adhesion and facilitate the wound heal. The compounds formed by the reaction of Sodium Hyaluronate with other drugs play a drug release effect role, thus achieve the purpose of drug targeted and time controlled release.
With the development of medical technology, Sodium Hyaluronate has been more and more widely used in medical applications. In 1990s, the large-scale production of Sodium Hyaluronate by fermentation made the cost lower, thus products containing Sodium Hyaluronate such as eye-drops, dermal fillers and other Sodium Hyaluronate preparations started to be used extensively.