Patent ID: 6398805
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A vascular or endoluminal stent comprising a biocompatible hollow tube having a longitudinal axis and open ends, a multiplicity of openings through the wall of the tube between said ends, said stent having a production state, a second state in which the stent is radially compressed and a third state in which the stent is radially expanded relative to said production state, the stent being adapted for deployment to said expanded state in a vessel, duct or tract of a patient, said multiplicity of openings through the wall of the tube being defined when the stent is in said production state by a network of tangentially interconnected, solely curvilinear struts, each of said struts running longitudinally from end to end of said tube in repetitively alternating crests and valleys without sharp breaks or angularity.