Patent ID: 8876880

Claim:
A method of treating a femoro-popliteal artery of a patient, comprising: delivering a guidewire to a lesion in the femoro-popliteal artery; advancing a stent delivery system over the guidewire to the lesion in the femoro-popliteal artery, the stent delivery system carrying a stent comprising a plurality of woven strands in a constrained configuration; releasing the stent from the stent delivery system, wherein releasing the stent causes the plurality of woven strands to self-expand and apply a radial force to the femoro-popliteal artery, wherein the stent when fully expanded in the femoro-popliteal artery has a diameter that is greater than 110% of a diameter of the femoro-popliteal artery being stented, the stent having first and second opposed ends and comprising a plurality of wire strands plain woven to form a plurality of crossed regions defining geometric cells, wherein each wire strand has strand ends and the strand ends are disposed proximate to the second end of the stent, and wherein each strand end is welded to another strand end.