Patent ID: 8460364
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A bioabsorbable and flexible scaffold formed from expansion-crystallizable bioabsorbable polymer material and circumferential about a longitudinal axis so as to form a tube, said tube having a proximal open end and a distal open end, and being crimpable and expandable, and having a patterned shape in expanded form comprising: a first multicomponent strut pattern helically coursing from said proximal open end to said distal open end of said tube; a nested hoop structure comprising at least one through-hole; and a second multicomponent strut pattern helically coursing from said proximal open end to said distal open end of said tube; wherein a component of said first multicomponent strut pattern opposes from about 120° to about 180° a component of said second multicomponent strut pattern as each helically courses from said proximal open end to said distal open end of said tube.