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US 2014/0193569 A1Published application
Stent with preferential coating
AssigneeAbbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
InventorsBin Huang, David C. Gale, Daniel A. Castro, Vincent J. Gueriguian
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Abstract
This invention relates to stents, a type of implantable medical device, with an antiproliferative coating and a prohealing luminal coating and methods of fabricating stents with an antiproliferative coating and a prohealing luminal coating.
Claims4
A method for manufacturing a stent, the method comprising:
- Forming a prohealing coating above an inner surface of a tube, the prohealing coating comprising a prohealing agent that promotes cell growth;
- Forming a stent from the tube;
- Forming an antiproliferative coating above an abluminal surface of the stent, the abluminal coating of the stent comprising an antiproliferative active agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.