Stent

• US 7,731,742 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2005
• Issued: 06/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Schlick, Tilman, Kuhnle, Markus
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui; Vy Q
• Application Number:
  US11/059,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20050182481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,937 Days
• Field of Search: 623/1.13, 623/1.22, 623/1.31
• US Class Current: 623/1.13
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/04 Hollow or tubular parts of organs, e.g. bladders, tracheae, bronchi or bile ducts A61F2/18, A61F2/20 take precedence; devices, other than stent-grafts, providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body other than stent-grafts, e.g. stents A61F2/82; instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts A61F2/95
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/07 Stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2418 Scaffolds therefor, e.g. support stents
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/82 Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents stent-grafts for tubular structures of the body other than blood vessels A61F2/04; stent-grafts for blood vessels A61F2/07; instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts A61F2/95; for closing wounds, or holding wounds closed A61B17/04 - A61B17/115; dilators A61M29/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/88 the wire-like elements formed as helical or spiral coils forming a net-like or mesh-like structure A61F2/90
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/89 the wire-like elements comprising two or more adjacent rings flexibly connected by separate members
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/90 characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/044 Oesophagi or esophagi or gullets
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/075 the stent being loosely attached to the graft material, e.g. by stitching
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/30233 Stepped cylinders, i.e. having discrete diameter changes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/30235 tubular, e.g. sleeves
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/30327 differing in diameter
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/828 Means for connecting a plurality of stents allowing flexibility of the whole structure
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0069 cylindrical
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0078 hyperboloidal
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0007 for adjusting length
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/001 for adjusting a diameter
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0039 differing in diameter

Abstract

A stent (10) for transluminal implantation comprises a first, second and third stent section (11, 12, 13) for splinting and/or keeping open a hollow organ which are connected to each other via elastic tubular sections (14, 15). The stent (10) combines at least three different stent designs in one stent and can therefore be adjusted to the motion behavior of a hollow organ in an improved fashion (FIG. 1).

Claims

1. Stent for splinting and/or keeping open a hollow organ, consisting of a tubular body having a diameter which can be changed through axial displacement of the ends of the body relative to each other, wherein the body comprises at least three stent sections comprising different cross-sections which can be expanded irrespectively of each other, comprising a woven, braided tubular web and one or more phase-shifted helices in one or more planes which are connected to each other via at least two elastic tubular sections which do not contain meshes or helices and further wherein the body is formed, in an unloaded expanded state, from a first stent section having a first diameter, a second stent section having a second diameter and a third stent section having a third diameter, wherein the at least two elastic tubular sections comprises a first elastic tubular section connecting said first stent section to said second stent section, and a second elastic tubular section connecting said second stent section to said third stent section.

2. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that the diameters of the stent sections are different.

3. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that when several helices are provided in several planes, at least one helix has an opposite winding direction.

4. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that the elastic tubular sections comprise a tissue-compatible plastic material and/or have different diameters.

5. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that the body, viewed in cross-section, has a web in the first, second and third stent sections and one or more helices which are surrounded by one or more elastic plastic layers which merge into the elastic tubular sections in a material-bonding fashion without webs and helices.

6. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that the body has at least one filament in the wall in the axial direction.

7. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that a thread is worked into the proximal end region of the body, viewed over the periphery of the body, whose length projects past the stent.

8. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that the distal end of the body comprises a return valve, in particular a foil valve.

9. Stent according to claim 1, characterized in that the tubular sections are made from thin, highly flexible and tear-proof plastic material e.g. silicon.

10. Stent according to claim 1, wherein the second diameter of the second stent section and the third diameter of the third stent section are larger than the first diameter of the first stent section.