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Stent with drug coating

  • US 7,824,440 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2006
  • Issued: 11/02/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A stent comprising:

  • a tubular body including a plurality of structural elements, sections of the structural elements lie on an imaginary cut plane perpendicular to a central axis of the tubular body, the sections together forming a perimeter; and

    a coating on the body, the coating including a drug, the amount of the drug on the body varying along the perimeter.

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