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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2003
Sunmi Chew, San Jose, CA (US);
Bernard Andreas, Redwood City, CA (US);
Hanson S. Gifford, Iii, Woodside, CA (US);
Ron French, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark E. Deem, Mountain View, CA (US);
Allan Will, Atherton, CA (US);
Sunmi Chew, San Jose, CA (US);
Bernard Andreas, Redwood City, CA (US);
Hanson S. Gifford, III, Woodside, CA (US);
Ron French, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark E. Deem, Mountain View, CA (US);
Allan Will, Atherton, CA (US);
XTENT, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Blood vessels and other body lumens are stented using multiple, discreet stent structures, or continuous coiled or mesh stent structures. Stent structures may be balloon expandable or self-expanding and are delivered by a delivery catheter which is repositioned to spaced-apart delivery sights. By coating the stents with particular biologically active substances, hyperplasia within and between the implanted stents can be inhibited. An exemplary delivery catheter comprises a catheter body having a deployment mechanism for deploying one or more stents of selectable length into the vessel.