Stent Drug Delivery System
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Abstract
Expandable intraluminal stents are provided as well their method of manufacture. These stents are made of metal, the metal characterized by a desired porosity, with a drug compressed into the pores of the stent. The stents are formed by subjecting one or more powdered metals in a die cavity to a pressure treatment followed by a heat treatment. The metal may be cast directly in a stent-like form or cast into sheets or tubes from which the inventive stents are produced. The so-formed porous metal stent is then loaded with one or more drugs.
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47 Claims
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23. An expandable intraluminal stent comprising:
a main body portion having a first end, a second end and a flow passage defined therethrough, the main body portion being sized for intraluminal placement within a body passage and subsequent expansion for implantation, the stent further comprising at least two separate regions arranged along the length of the main body portion, the first region comprising a first powdered material having first pores within, the first material characterized by a first porosity and a first pore size, the second region comprising a second powdered material having second pores within, the second material characterized by a second porosity and a second pore size. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method of forming a stent comprising the steps of:
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providing a first powdered polymer; providing a second powdered polymer, the first powdered polymer and second powdered polymer having different compositions or different physical properties or both; treating the first and second powdered polymer to form a stent preform having a length, the stent preform including a first region comprising the first powdered polymer and a second region comprising the second powdered polymer, the first region displaced along the length of the stent preform from the second region; and forming a stent from the stent preform. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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