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US 2014/0350659 A1Published application
Biodegradable endoprostheses and methods for their fabrication
AssigneeElixir Medical Corporation
InventorsXiaoxia Zheng, John Yan, Vinayak Bhat
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Abstract
Biodegradable endoprostheses are formed from amorphous polymers having desirable biodegradation characteristics. The strength of such amorphous polymers is enhanced by annealing to increase crystallinity without substantially increasing the biodegradation time.
Claims2
-30. (canceled)
An expandable stent, comprising:
- a biodegradable polymeric material having an initial configuration, said expandable stent being expandable to a larger configuration without fracture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.