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WO2004105853A1
WO2004105853A1 PCT/KR2003/001078 KR0301078W WO2004105853A1 WO 2004105853 A1 WO2004105853 A1 WO 2004105853A1 KR 0301078 W KR0301078 W KR 0301078W WO 2004105853 A1 WO2004105853 A1 WO 2004105853A1
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Sung-Gwon Kang
Eun-Sang Kim
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
    • A61F2/82—Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
    • A61F2/86—Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements; Stents in the form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
    • A61F2/90—Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements; Stents in the form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
    • A61F2/82—Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
    • A61F2/86—Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements; Stents in the form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F2/00—Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting them with the body; Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents
    • A61F2/02—Prostheses implantable into the body
    • A61F2/04—Hollow or tubular parts of organs, e.g. bladders, tracheae, bronchi or bile ducts
    • A61F2002/044—Oesophagi or esophagi or gullets
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F2230/00—Geometry of prostheses classified in groups A61F2/00 - A61F2/26 or A61F2/82 or A61F9/00 or A61F11/00 or subgroups thereof
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  • the present invention relates to a medical appliance for lumens, and particularly, to a self-expandable medical appliance (hereinafter, referring to a ⁇ stent') for expanding the lumens of a blood vessel or esophagus in case these are constricted. More particularly, the present invention relates to a stent which can be contracted to a minimum size, is superior in expansibility, is easily bent and is very superior in flexibility.
  • the lumens in a human body may be constricted by diseases occurring in the body and thus their functions are degraded, more seriously, disabled. Such situation arises, for example, when the esophagus is constricted due to esophageal cancer when the blood does not flow smoothly due to arteriosclerosis, or when a track for flowing bile produced from a liver is constricted.
  • Such a stent is widely used which has an overall shape of a cylindrical structural body, is self-elastic to thus be contracted by an external force, and is self-expanding when the external force is removed.
  • the above-mentioned self-expandable stent requires many properties, i.e., expansibility for expanding the lumen, flexibility for flexibly adapting itself while maintaining a bent shape of the lumen at a bent portion of the lumen, and contractibility for contracting into a predetermined diameter, in order to perform its functions properly.
  • the stent if it is short of expansibility, it is easily moved from a first stent section of the lumen ' , if it is short of flexibility, it is reduced in adaptability to a bent portion of the lumen when the stent expands from the bent portion of the lumen, and if it is short of contractibility, the size of an insertion device for inserting the stent is increased.
  • the conventional stents are mainly divided into spiral type stents and zigzag type stents.
  • the representative ones of the spiral type stents includes a stent which is formed in a cylindrical shape on the whole by spirally wrapping filaments having a unit length along a cylindrical wall face, reciprocating them between opposite ends in a zigzag pattern and crossing them each other, thereby producing a mesh.
  • the stent of this type is superior in flexibility because it can be contracted into a small diameter, while having a drawback that it is largely decreased in expansibility due to the flexibility.
  • Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 1998-67399 discloses a stent which is formed of a filament having a plurality of turns of a zigzag configuration consisting of a plurality of straight portions and a plurality of peak and valley portions connecting the straight portions by a plurality of bending portions, and wherein the valley portion of a certain turn of the stent is twisted and connected with the peak portion of an adjacent turn of the stent as shown in Figs. 7 and 8.
  • the conventional stents are superior in the expansibility for expanding the constricted lumen, they are disadvantageous in that they are poor in flexibility, are difficult to be contracted to a small size and cannot maintain a bent shape at a bent portion of the lumen as its.
  • a cylindrical stent being formed of a wire and having a longitudinal axis according to the present invention, comprising: a plurality of basic turns being arranged with no crossing points to each other at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turns along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body, the basic turns (1) of a zigzag configuration consisting of a plurality of peak portions (lc) and a plurality of valley portions (lb) connected by straight portions (la) along the circumferential surface; and a plurality of connecting turns (2) connecting the plurality of basic turns each other by winding the straight portions (la)- of the overlapped basic turns in a mesh shape and being arranged at the same interval as the distance (d) of the straight .
  • Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of a stent according to the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged view showing a unit cell of the stent according to the present invention.
  • Fig. 3 is an enlarged view showing a basic turn of the stent according to the present invention.
  • Figs. 4 to 6 are views for explaining a method for making a stent according to the present invention
  • Figs. 7 to 8 are views showing a connecting state of basic turns in a conventional stent.
  • Basic turn 2 connecting turn la: straight portion of basic turn lb: valley portion of basic turn lc: peak portion of basic turn d: distance between straight portions of basic turn h: height of basic turn H: interval between basic turns
  • first basic pin 12 second basic pin
  • the cylindrical stent of the invention includes a plurality of basic turns 1 which is made of a wire having a unit length and has a zigzag configuration, the wire having a plurality of bending points along the circumferential face.
  • the basic turns have a plurality of peak portions lc and a plurality of valley portions lb as shown in Fig. 3.
  • the peak portions lc and the valley portions lb are connected by straight portions la slanted to the left and right sides.
  • the basic turns 1 are arranged with no crossing points to each other at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turns along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body.
  • the cylindrical stent of the present invention includes a plurality of connecting turns 2 which connects the plurality of basic turns by winding the straight portions la of the overlapped basic turns in a coil shape, the basic turns being overlapped with the connecting turns as the connecting turns are arranged in a diagonal directions to the left and right sides of the basic turns.
  • the connecting turns 2 are arranged at the same interval as the distance (d) between the straight portions la of the basic turns.
  • the stent of the invention forms a unit cell as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the unit cell of Fig. 2 has the connecting turns 2 for wrapping the basic turns 1 arranged in an uncrossed state and connecting them in a mesh shape, to thus improve the flexibility of the stent greatly.
  • This can contract the stent to a smaller size, and the stent can keep its original shape even at a bent portion of a lumen, thereby allowing the flow of blood to be performed smoothly.
  • the connecting turns 2 are wound about the straight portions la of the overlapped basic turns in a coil shape, so the expansibility of the stent is also superior.
  • the number of times the connecting turns 2 are wound about the straight portions la of the basic turns is preferably 2 to 10.
  • the wire constituting the basic turns 1 and the connecting turns 2 is preferably made of a shape memory alloy such as nitinol.
  • a method for making a cylindrical stent of the present invention will now be described.
  • the wire is revolved once in a zigzag manner along a first basic pin 11 and a second basic pin 12 of a jig 10 for the manufacture of a stent to thus form a single basic turn 1.
  • a position spaced apart from the thus-formed basic turn in a downward direction of the jig 10 at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turn another basic turn 1 is formed in the same manner.
  • a plurality of basic turns is formed which is arranged along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body without no crossing points to each other.
  • the interval between the connecting turns 2 is adjusted to be the same as the distance (d) between the straight portions of the basic turns, and the connecting turns 2 are wound around the straight portions la of the basic turns overlapped with the connecting turns 2.
  • the wire is positioned at the first basic pin 11 of the jig 10. At this time, if the wire is knotted, the thinning work of the stent is completed.
  • the knot of the connecting turns 2 serves as a fixing wire for fixing the stent into a lumen, and thus the manufacture and attachment of a fixing wire separately can be minimized.
  • the resulting stent is heated for 10 to 20 minutes in a heating oven set to 400 to 600°C along with the jig 10 for the manufacture of the stent, then is annealed for 30 minutes to 4 hours at a room temperature, then is separated from the jig 10, and then is finished, thereby completing the manufacture of the stent.
  • the present invention does not specially limit the condition of heating and annealing for the manufacture of the stent.
  • the cylindrical stent of the present invention is very superior in flexibility and expansibility since it has the connecting turns wrapping the basic turns and connecting them in a mesh shape. As a result, it can be contracted to a minimum size, keep its original shape at a bent portion of a lumen and is superior in adhesiveness to the bent portion of the lumen. Moreover, the present invention can minimize a number of fixing wires manufactured separately.

Abstract

The present invention discloses a cylindrical stent being formed of a wire and having a longitudinal axis, comprising: a plurality of basic turns being arranged with no crossing points to each other at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turns along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body, the basic turns (1) of a zigzag configuration consisting of a plurality of peak portions (1c) and a plurality of valley portions (1b) connected by straight portions (1a) along the circumferential surface; and a plurality of connecting turns (2) connecting the plurality of basic turns each other by winding the straight portions (1a) of the overlapped basic turns in a mesh shape and being arranged at the same interval as the distance (d) of the straight portions of the basic turns in a diagonal direction to the left and right sides.

Description

A CYLINDRICAL STENT
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a medical appliance for lumens, and particularly, to a self-expandable medical appliance (hereinafter, referring to a λstent') for expanding the lumens of a blood vessel or esophagus in case these are constricted. More particularly, the present invention relates to a stent which can be contracted to a minimum size, is superior in expansibility, is easily bent and is very superior in flexibility. Typically, the lumens in a human body may be constricted by diseases occurring in the body and thus their functions are degraded, more seriously, disabled. Such situation arises, for example, when the esophagus is constricted due to esophageal cancer when the blood does not flow smoothly due to arteriosclerosis, or when a track for flowing bile produced from a liver is constricted.
In such a condition that the lumen is constricted, food, blood or bile cannot flow smoothly. Thus, expanding the constricted lumen for maintaining an open passageway is needed in such cases, and for this purpose, for example, a stent is inserted into the lumen as a method of expanding the constricted passageway and maintaining an open passage way.
Such a stent is widely used which has an overall shape of a cylindrical structural body, is self-elastic to thus be contracted by an external force, and is self-expanding when the external force is removed. The above-mentioned self-expandable stent requires many properties, i.e., expansibility for expanding the lumen, flexibility for flexibly adapting itself while maintaining a bent shape of the lumen at a bent portion of the lumen, and contractibility for contracting into a predetermined diameter, in order to perform its functions properly.
Among the properties of the stent, if it is short of expansibility, it is easily moved from a first stent section of the lumen', if it is short of flexibility, it is reduced in adaptability to a bent portion of the lumen when the stent expands from the bent portion of the lumen, and if it is short of contractibility, the size of an insertion device for inserting the stent is increased.
BACKGROUND ART
Therefore, a plurality of stents having the above-mentioned functions has been developed. The conventional stents are mainly divided into spiral type stents and zigzag type stents.
The representative ones of the spiral type stents includes a stent which is formed in a cylindrical shape on the whole by spirally wrapping filaments having a unit length along a cylindrical wall face, reciprocating them between opposite ends in a zigzag pattern and crossing them each other, thereby producing a mesh. The stent of this type is superior in flexibility because it can be contracted into a small diameter, while having a drawback that it is largely decreased in expansibility due to the flexibility.
Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 1998-67399 discloses a stent which is formed of a filament having a plurality of turns of a zigzag configuration consisting of a plurality of straight portions and a plurality of peak and valley portions connecting the straight portions by a plurality of bending portions, and wherein the valley portion of a certain turn of the stent is twisted and connected with the peak portion of an adjacent turn of the stent as shown in Figs. 7 and 8.
Although the conventional stents are superior in the expansibility for expanding the constricted lumen, they are disadvantageous in that they are poor in flexibility, are difficult to be contracted to a small size and cannot maintain a bent shape at a bent portion of the lumen as its.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a stent which can be contracted to a minimum size by having connecting turns wrapping basic turns and connecting them each other, maintain a cylindrical shape well for smoothly flowing blood or the like at a bent portion of a lumen because of its superior expansibility and flexibility, is bent according to a bent shape of the lumen and is closely contacted with an inner wall of the lumen. To achieve the above object, there is provided a cylindrical stent being formed of a wire and having a longitudinal axis according to the present invention, comprising: a plurality of basic turns being arranged with no crossing points to each other at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turns along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body, the basic turns (1) of a zigzag configuration consisting of a plurality of peak portions (lc) and a plurality of valley portions (lb) connected by straight portions (la) along the circumferential surface; and a plurality of connecting turns (2) connecting the plurality of basic turns each other by winding the straight portions (la)- of the overlapped basic turns in a mesh shape and being arranged at the same interval as the distance (d) of the straight. portions of the basic turns in a diagonal direction to the left and right sides, the basic turns being overlapped with the connecting turns as the connecting turns are arranged in a diagonal direction to the left and right sides of the basic turns.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
These and other features, aspects, and advantages of preferred embodiments of the present invention will be more fully described in the following detailed description, when taken in conjunction with accompanying drawings. In the drawings:
Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of a stent according to the present invention;
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view showing a unit cell of the stent according to the present invention;
Fig. 3 is an enlarged view showing a basic turn of the stent according to the present invention;
Figs. 4 to 6 are views for explaining a method for making a stent according to the present invention; Figs. 7 to 8 are views showing a connecting state of basic turns in a conventional stent. . Explanation of basic numerals for main parts of drawings. 1: basic turn 2: connecting turn la: straight portion of basic turn lb: valley portion of basic turn lc: peak portion of basic turn d: distance between straight portions of basic turn h: height of basic turn H: interval between basic turns
D: interval between connecting turns
10: jig for manufacture of stent
11: first basic pin 12: second basic pin
BEST MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with basic to the accompanying drawings.
Referring to Fig. 1, the cylindrical stent of the invention includes a plurality of basic turns 1 which is made of a wire having a unit length and has a zigzag configuration, the wire having a plurality of bending points along the circumferential face.
The basic turns have a plurality of peak portions lc and a plurality of valley portions lb as shown in Fig. 3. The peak portions lc and the valley portions lb are connected by straight portions la slanted to the left and right sides. The basic turns 1 are arranged with no crossing points to each other at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turns along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body.
Meanwhile, as shown in Fig. 1, the cylindrical stent of the present invention includes a plurality of connecting turns 2 which connects the plurality of basic turns by winding the straight portions la of the overlapped basic turns in a coil shape, the basic turns being overlapped with the connecting turns as the connecting turns are arranged in a diagonal directions to the left and right sides of the basic turns. The connecting turns 2 are arranged at the same interval as the distance (d) between the straight portions la of the basic turns.
By the basic turns 1 and connecting turns 2 above-described, the stent of the invention forms a unit cell as shown in Fig. 2.
The unit cell of Fig. 2 has the connecting turns 2 for wrapping the basic turns 1 arranged in an uncrossed state and connecting them in a mesh shape, to thus improve the flexibility of the stent greatly. This can contract the stent to a smaller size, and the stent can keep its original shape even at a bent portion of a lumen, thereby allowing the flow of blood to be performed smoothly. In addition, in the present invention, the connecting turns 2 are wound about the straight portions la of the overlapped basic turns in a coil shape, so the expansibility of the stent is also superior. The number of times the connecting turns 2 are wound about the straight portions la of the basic turns is preferably 2 to 10. The wire constituting the basic turns 1 and the connecting turns 2 is preferably made of a shape memory alloy such as nitinol.
An example of a method for making a cylindrical stent of the present invention will now be described. Firstly, as shown in Fig. 4, the wire is revolved once in a zigzag manner along a first basic pin 11 and a second basic pin 12 of a jig 10 for the manufacture of a stent to thus form a single basic turn 1. At a position spaced apart from the thus-formed basic turn in a downward direction of the jig 10 at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turn, another basic turn 1 is formed in the same manner. By repeating this work, a plurality of basic turns is formed which is arranged along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body without no crossing points to each other.
Next, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, a plurality of connecting turns 2 connecting the straight portions la of the basic turns in a direction diagonal to the left and right sides. At this time, the interval between the connecting turns 2 is adjusted to be the same as the distance (d) between the straight portions of the basic turns, and the connecting turns 2 are wound around the straight portions la of the basic turns overlapped with the connecting turns 2.
Once the formation of the connecting turns 2 is over, the wire is positioned at the first basic pin 11 of the jig 10. At this time, if the wire is knotted, the thinning work of the stent is completed.
In the present invention, the knot of the connecting turns 2 serves as a fixing wire for fixing the stent into a lumen, and thus the manufacture and attachment of a fixing wire separately can be minimized.
Next, the resulting stent is heated for 10 to 20 minutes in a heating oven set to 400 to 600°C along with the jig 10 for the manufacture of the stent, then is annealed for 30 minutes to 4 hours at a room temperature, then is separated from the jig 10, and then is finished, thereby completing the manufacture of the stent.
The present invention does not specially limit the condition of heating and annealing for the manufacture of the stent.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
The cylindrical stent of the present invention is very superior in flexibility and expansibility since it has the connecting turns wrapping the basic turns and connecting them in a mesh shape. As a result, it can be contracted to a minimum size, keep its original shape at a bent portion of a lumen and is superior in adhesiveness to the bent portion of the lumen. Moreover, the present invention can minimize a number of fixing wires manufactured separately.

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1. A cylindrical stent being formed of a wire and having a longitudinal axis, comprising: a plurality of basic turns being arranged with no crossing points to each other at the same interval as the height (h) of the basic turns along the longitudinal direction of a cylindrical body, the basic turns (1) of a zigzag configuration consisting of a plurality of peak portions (lc) and a plurality of valley portions (lb) connected by straight portions (la) along the circumferential surface; and a plurality of connecting turns (2) connecting the plurality of basic turns (1) each other by winding the straight portions (la) of the overlapped basic turns in a mesh shape and being arranged at the same interval as the distance (d) of the straight portions of the basic turns in a diagonal direction to the left and right sides, the basic turns being overlapped with the connecting turns as the connecting turns are arranged in a diagonal direction to the left and right sides of the basic turns.
2. The cylindrical stent of claim 1, wherein the wire is made of a shape memory alloy such as nitinol.
3. The cylindrical stent of claim 1, wherein the connecting turns (2) are wound about the straight portions la of the overlapped basic turns 2 to 10 times.
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