Stent with an end of greater diameter than its main body
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1. A method of dilating and keeping open a vessel comprising:
- providing a stent having a body extending along a longitudinal axis of said stent, said body comprising material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, said body having a radially contracted state for introduction of the stent into a vessel;
introducing the stent into a vessel; and
radially expanding the stent to dilate and keep open the vessel;
wherein said step of providing includes forming said stent body such that said material areas are relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures which give rise to a greater material thickness, and wherein said step of radially expanding includes expanding the stent to a radially expanded state having at least one end of opposite ends of the body along the longitudinal axis of the stent which has a greater diameter than the remaining body of the stent between said opposite ends with the ribs in the vicinity of said at least one end extending radially outwardly progressively in a direction along said longitudinal axis to said at least one end of the stent.
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Abstract
For the better anchoring of a stent in its use area within a vessel, in the case of a stent expandable from a radially contracted introduction state into a radially expanded position state and having a body with material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, in the radially expanded state at least one front end of the stent has a greater radial extension than the remaining main stent body with the material areas of the body being relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures.
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1. A method of dilating and keeping open a vessel comprising:
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providing a stent having a body extending along a longitudinal axis of said stent, said body comprising material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, said body having a radially contracted state for introduction of the stent into a vessel; introducing the stent into a vessel; and radially expanding the stent to dilate and keep open the vessel; wherein said step of providing includes forming said stent body such that said material areas are relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures which give rise to a greater material thickness, and wherein said step of radially expanding includes expanding the stent to a radially expanded state having at least one end of opposite ends of the body along the longitudinal axis of the stent which has a greater diameter than the remaining body of the stent between said opposite ends with the ribs in the vicinity of said at least one end extending radially outwardly progressively in a direction along said longitudinal axis to said at least one end of the stent. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. Stent for dilating and keeping open a vessel, said stent comprising a body extending along a longitudinal axis of said stent, which body, in a radially contracted state, permits the stent to be introduced into a vessel and thereafter radially expanded to a radially expanded state in the vessel, wherein said body of the stent in the radially expanded state of the body having at least one end of the opposite ends of the body along the longitudinal axis of the stent which has a greater diameter than the main body of the stent intermediate said opposite ends, wherein said body has material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, and wherein said material areas are relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures which give rise to a greater material thickness, and wherein the ribs in the vicinity of said at least one end extend radially outwardly progressively in a direction along said longitudinal axis to said at least one end of the stent.
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