Patent ID: 6551351
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An expandable tubular stent, comprising:a first stent segment and a second stent segment spaced apart from the first segment, each of the stent segments disposed about a common longitudinal axis, each of the sent segments having a plurality of interconnected struts, the first stent segment having at least one first stent segment connection member extending from the first stent segment toward the second stent segment at an angle offset from the longitudinal axis, the second stent segment having at least one second stent segment connection member extending from the second stent segment toward the first stent segment at an angle offset from the longitudinal axis, the at least one first stent segment connection member and the at least one second stent segment connection member positioned immediately adjacent to one another in a continuous side by side relationship wherein only one side of the at least one first stent segment connection member is engaged to only one side of the at least one second stent segment connection member.