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Method of forming a non-circular stent

  • US 20070163668A1
  • Filed: 01/30/2007
  • Published: 07/19/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for manufacturing a stent, which comprises:

  • providing a mandrel with an outer surface having a polygonal cross-sectional shape and a longitudinal axis;

    winding stent wire around the outer surface of the mandrel about the longitudinal axis into a desired final shape, the desired final shape being polygonal in an elevation orthogonal to the longitudinal axis; and

    forming a stent by setting the wound stent wire in the desired polygonal final shape.

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