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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
May. 08, 2001
Shawn Thayer Huxel, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Arindam Datta, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Yufu LI, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Dennis D. Jamiolkowski, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Emil Richard Skula, Wayne, NJ (US);
Shawn Thayer Huxel, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Arindam Datta, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Yufu Li, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Dennis D. Jamiolkowski, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Emil Richard Skula, Wayne, NJ (US);
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Abstract
A removable stent for implantation into a lumen in a human body. The stent is made from a soft, flexible fiber having an outer surface. An outer bioabsorbable/degradable coating is applied to the outer surface of the filament causing it to become rigid. The coating softens in vivo through absorption and/or degradation such that the stent is readily passed or removed from the lumen as a softened filament after a pre-determined period of time through normal flow of body fluids passing through the lumen or by manual removal.