Back to results
US 9,750,853 B2Granted
Stent with preferential coating
AssigneeAbbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
InventorsBin Huang, David C. Gale, Daniel A. Castro, Vincent J. Gueriguian
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
This invention relates to stents, a type of implantable medical device, with an antiproliferative coating and a prohealing luminal coating and methods of fabricating stents with an antiproliferative coating and a prohealing luminal coating.
Claims10
A method for coating a stent body, the method comprising:
- crimping a stent body;
- forming a prohealing coating above a luminal surface of the crimped stent body by applying a coating material comprising a prohealing agent that promotes cell growth on the luminal surface of the crimped stent body;
- and
- forming an antiproliferative coating above an abluminal surface of the crimped stent body by applying a coating material comprising an antiproliferative active agent on the abluminal surface of the crimped stent body, wherein the antiproliferative coating is formed at the same time as the prohealing coating.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.