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Stent for the transluminal implantation in hollow organs

  • US 5,876,449 A
  • Filed: 03/29/1996
  • Issued: 03/02/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A stent for transluminal implantation in hollow organs including blood vessels, ureters, oesophagae and gall tracts, the stent comprising:

  • a body having a substantially tubular wall with a longitudinal axis extending therethrough, the wall having a compressed state with a first cross-sectional diameter and an expanded state with a second cross-sectional diameter larger than the first cross-sectional diameter;

    apertures of the body spaced in a longitudinal direction along the tubular wall and in a circumferential direction around the tubular wall for permitting the wall to expand from the compressed state to the expanded state, the apertures forming slot openings in the wall in the compressed state; and

    sections of the slot openings with each slot opening having a plurality of sections that extend obliquely relative to the longitudinal axis.

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