Patent ID: 8163007

Claim:
A stent for use in a medical procedure, the stent comprising: a series of proximal apices disposed at a proximal end of the stent; a series of distal apices disposed at a distal end of the stent; and a plurality of strut segments disposed between the series of proximal apices and the series of distal apices, where the strut segments enable expansion of the stent from a compressed state to a deployed state, where the series of proximal apices comprises a plurality of alternating first and second proximal apices, where each of the first proximal apices comprises an end region having a first bore, and where each of the second proximal apices comprises first and second regions, where at least one integral barb is formed in the first region and where a second bore is formed in the second region, and each of the second proximal apices further comprises a recessed portion formed in the second proximal apex at a location distal to the second bore, where at least one of the first proximal apices is nested within the recessed portion of an adjacent, second proximal apex during delivery of the stent, and where the first and second proximal apices are circumferentially offset from one another in the deployed state.