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US 5,957,971 AGranted
Intraluminal stent
AssigneeMedtronic, Inc.
InventorRobert S. Schwartz
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Abstract
An intraluminal stent comprising fibrin is capable of reducing the incidence of restenosis at the site of vascular injury such as that produced by an angioplasty procedure.
Claims1
An intraluminal stent for implantation in a body lumen, in which the stent has a surface adapted to be retained in contact with a wall of the body lumen, the stent comprising a pre-formed fibrin film on the lumen-contacting surface thereof, said fibrin provided by contacting fibrinogen with a fibrinogen-coagulating protein, and wherein the fibrin is intermixed with a polymeric material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.