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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
May. 20, 2015
Jotec Gmbh, Hechingen, DE;
Heike Fischer, Meerbusch, DE;
Juergen Merz, Balingen, DE;
JOTEC GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a self-expanding vascular implant for implanting into a blood vessel, the implant comprising a hollow cylindrical body with a proximal and a distal end and with a longitudinal axis; comprising stent springs, which are successively arranged and spaced from one another over the longitudinal axis of the body, each stent spring meandering; and comprising an implant material, which is fixed to the stent springs and connects same. The stent springs have pointed arches which alternately point toward the proximal and distal direction and comprise alternating crests and troughs that are connected to one another via legs of different lengths, whereby a stent spring has pointed arches, which are circumferentially and successively arranged and which have different heights, said pointed arches consisting of higher and shorter pointed arches.