Coated stents with better gripping ability

A method of securing an expandable medical device for implantation in a body to an expansion member comprising the steps of:

• providing an expansion member having an inner surface and an outer surface;
• providing an expandable medical device having an inner surface and an outer surface, at least one of the outer surface of the expansion member and the inner surface of the expandable medical device having a pressure sensitive adhesive applied thereto;
• and
• disposing the expandable medical device about the expansion member and adhering the expandable medical device to the expansion member wherein the expandable medical device in an expanded state releases from the expansion member upon contraction of the expansion member.

A method of delivering an expanded medical device to a desires bodily location comprising the steps of:

• providing an expansion member having an inner surface and an outer surface;
• providing an expandable medical device in an unexpanded state having an inner surface and an outer surface, at least one of said outer surface of said expansion member and said inner surface of said expandable medical device having pressure sensitive adhesive applied thereto;
• disposing said expandable medical device about said expansion member said expansion member adhesively secured to said expandable medical device with said pressure sensitive adhesive;
• providing said expansion member and said expandable medical device in an expanded state at a desired body location;
• contracting the expansion member thereby releasing the expanded medical device from the expansion member;
• and
• withdrawing the expansion member from the body.

A stent delivery apparatus comprising:

• a catheter having an expandable and contractible member;
• and
• an expandable stent disposed about the expandable and contractible member;
• wherein at least a portion of at least one of the stent and the expandable and contractible member has a pressure sensitive adhesive applied thereto to adhere the stent to the expandable and contractible member, the pressure sensitive adhesive selected so as to release the stent from the expandable and contractible member upon contraction of the member from an expanded state.