Stent prosthesis
AssigneeMedicut Stent Technology GmbH
InventorsJohannes JUNG, Aryan FALLAHI
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Abstract
A stent for use in hollow tubular organs, comprising a continuous tubular or cylindrical inner cavity which is delimited by a wall. The wall is formed in a tubular or cylindrical manner about an axis which runs in a longitudinal direction and has a structure which surrounds the wall. The structure is made of elements, and the elements are made of loops which are arranged about the longitudinal axis in the radial direction. The elements are rigidly connected via connection points such that a tubular or cylindrical single-piece wall structure is produced, and the stent has acute angles in the region of the connection points.
Claims15
A stent with a continuous, interior, tubular or cylindrical cavity bounded by a wall, wherein the wall is configured to be tubular or cylindrical and extending about an axis running in the longitudinal direction (x) and comprises a structure running about the wall, wherein the structure is formed from elements and the elements are formed from loops, which are arranged substantially in the radial direction (y) about the longitudinal axis, and they have loop peaks and loop valleys arranged in alternating manner and running substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction (x), so that an element is firmly connected to the preceding or following element by connection points in the region of the loop valleys of the elements and the loop peaks of the following elements and in the region of the loop peaks of the elements and the loop valleys of the preceding elements in order to produce a one-piece tubular or cylindrical wall structure, characterized in that the loop peaks and the opposite loop valleys in the longitudinal direction stand in direct contact or overlap each other and each time at the connection points a web S1 running substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction (x) and a web S3 running substantially parallel to the radial direction (y) is formed, while S1 has at least the width of a web S2 in the region of the loop line between the loop peaks and the loop valleys and acute angles (φ) are present in the region of the connection points between loop valleys and loop peaks.
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