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US 7,083,642 B2Granted
Delivery of therapeutic capable agents
AssigneeAvantec Vascular Corporation
InventorsMotasim Sirhan, John Yan
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Abstract
The present invention provides improved stents and other prostheses for delivering substances to vascular and other luminal and intracorporeal environments. In particular, the present invention provides for therapeutic capable agent eluting stents with minimized undesirable loss of the therapeutic capable agent during expansion of the stent.
Claims14
A device for intracorporeal use, the device comprising:
- a structure;
- and
- at least one source of at least one therapeutic capable agent associated with the structure, the at least one therapeutic capable agent having a textured surface wherein the surface has peaks and valleys with a distance between the peaks ranging from about 5 μm to about 50 μm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.