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Noncylindrical Drug Eluting Stent for Treating Vascular Bifurcations

  • US 20080161903A1
  • Filed: 03/17/2008
  • Published: 07/03/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A deployment system for treating a bifurcation of a main vessel and a first and second branch vessels, comprising:

  • an elongate, flexible body, having an end and a downstream end;

    a first stent carried by the downstream end of the body;

    a drug, releasably carried by the stent;

    a releasable restraint, for retaining the stent on the flexible body;

    wherein the downstream end of the stent is larger in diameter than the upstream end of the stent in an unconstrained expanded configuration.

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