Patent ID: 7485139
Filing Date: 2009-02-03
Classification: A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. A stent delivery and deployment apparatus for placement of vascular stents, comprising: an elongated stent, said stent having a first end and a second end, said stent having a sidewall defining a central cavity communicating between said first end and said second end; said central cavity having a center axis therethrough; said stent including a passageway formed axially along said sidewall, adjacent to and separated from said central cavity, said elongated stent engaged with said passageway in a unitary one-piece structure; a guidewire located in said passageway; said passageway having a diameter therethrough sized to accommodate axial translation upon a said guide wire located in said passageway; and means to axially translate said stent along said guide wire engaged through said passageway, to a determined position in a blood vessel of a patient, whereby said guide wire can be threaded into the blood vessel of a patient and said stent slid to said determined position along said guide wire and said guide wire can thereafter be removed from said blood vessel subsequent to said stent being implanted in said blood vessel.