Method for making a medical implant with open-work structure and implant obtained by said method
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1. A method of production of a medical implant (10,23,24) with a mesh-like structure, notably of a device for the treatment of a corporeal duct currently denominated as “
- stent”
or of an implant able to plug a hole in a corporeal wall, currently denominated as “
plug”
, comprising the step consisting in forming the structure from a single wire, by running each strand of wire helicoidally from one end to the other of the structure and by interlacing this strand with other strands previously arranged;
wherein the method moreover comprises the steps consisting in forming a loop (12) between each strand at (11b, 11c) at each end of the structure (10); and
setting the free ends of the first (11b) and of the last strand significantly back from the ends of the structure (10).
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This process comprises the step consisting in forming the structure from a single wire, by running each strand of wire helicoidally from one end to the other of the structure and by interlacing this strand with other strands previously arranged. Said method moreover comprises the steps consisting in:—forming a loop (12) between each strand (11b, 11c) at each end of the structure (10) and setting the free ends of the first (11b) and of the last strand significantly back from the ends of the structure (10).
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1. A method of production of a medical implant (10,23,24) with a mesh-like structure, notably of a device for the treatment of a corporeal duct currently denominated as “
- stent”
or of an implant able to plug a hole in a corporeal wall, currently denominated as “
plug”
, comprising the step consisting in forming the structure from a single wire, by running each strand of wire helicoidally from one end to the other of the structure and by interlacing this strand with other strands previously arranged;
wherein the method moreover comprises the steps consisting in forming a loop (12) between each strand at (11b, 11c) at each end of the structure (10); and
setting the free ends of the first (11b) and of the last strand significantly back from the ends of the structure (10). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- stent”
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