Balloon expandable covered stents

A method for deploying a stent within a body lumen, said method comprising the steps of:

• providing a stent comprising a stent body comprising nitinol, said stent body being characterized by a free cylindrical shape having a free diameter d;
• deforming said stent body to a diameter smaller than said free diameter d;
• coating said stent with a metal coating while said stent body is at said diameter smaller than said free diameter d, said metal coating substantially preventing said stent body from expanding towards said free diameter d and wherein said metal coating allows said stent body to be expanded to a useful diameter equal to or less than the free diameter d, and wherein after the expansion by a balloon catheter of said stent body once positioned in a target location of the body, to a useful diameter less than said free diameter d, said metal coating substantially prevents said expanded stent body from expanding towards said free diameter d;
• inserting said stent into the body lumen, with said nitinol in a substantially austenitic phase;
• and
• mechanically expanding said stent.