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Micro-porous mesh stent with hybrid structure

  • US 6,312,463 B1
  • Filed: 02/01/2000
  • Issued: 11/06/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A micro-porous mesh structure for supporting a wall of a body passage, comprising:

  • a generally tubular body having a contracted condition for facilitating delivery into the body passage, and an enlarged condition for engaging the wall of the body passage, the tubular body being biased to its enlarged condition;

    a plurality of struts formed integrally onto the tubular body and spaced along a length of the tubular body for supporting the tubular body against the wall of the body passage, the struts separating relatively thin-walled regions therebetween; and

    a plurality of openings in the relatively thin-walled regions of the tubular body defining a micro-porous mesh pattern therein;

    wherein the tubular body comprises a coiled-sheet having overlapping inner and outer sections.

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