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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2002
Philip S. Yip, San Jose, CA (US);
James Jacobs, Mountain View, CA (US);
Syed Hossainy, Fremont, CA (US);
Jon Becker, Danville, CA (US);
Timothy A. Limon, Cupertino, CA (US);
Philip S. Yip, San Jose, CA (US);
James Jacobs, Mountain View, CA (US);
Syed Hossainy, Fremont, CA (US);
Jon Becker, Danville, CA (US);
Timothy A. Limon, Cupertino, CA (US);
Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An intravascular stent includes an eluting sheath fabricated from a mesh for controlled release of therapeutic drugs and for delivery of the therapeutic drugs in localized drug therapy in a blood vessel. The eluting sheath is attached to at least a portion of an outside surface area of the stent structure and is fabricated from a mesh designed to neck down in response to a radially outward directed force resulting in the uniform expansion of the stent. The eluting sheath can be loaded with at least one therapeutic drug for the release thereof at a treatment site to facilitate repair of a damaged vessel. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen.