Patent ID: 7927364

Claim:
A method for stenting comprising the steps of: providing an apparatus comprising a stent having: a web structure defining an essentially tubular member expandable from a collapsed delivery configuration toward an expanded deployed configuration; a plurality of longitudinally adjacent web patterns defining the web structure, the web patterns having alternating concavity, two web patterns defining at least one aperture having at least two circumferentially coterminous intercommunicating substantially S-shaped portions; and a material disposed about an exterior surface of the stent, the material comprising a multiplicity of pores, the pores having a width greater than about 30 μm to permit endothelization of an interior surface of the stent and less than about 100 μm to inhibit emboli release; advancing the apparatus in a the collapsed delivery configuration to a treatment site within a patient's vascular system; deploying the apparatus to an the expanded configuration in which the apparatus engages a wall of the vascular system at the treatment site; and promoting endothelial cell ingrowth through the multiplicity of pores to cover the interior surface of the stent while the material is configured to retain emboli at the treatment site against the wall of the vascular system.