Medical Devices With an Interlocking Coating and Methods of Making the Same

Disclosed herein are medical devices, such as intravascular stents, for delivering a therapeutic agent to the body tissue of a patient, and a method for making such medical devices. More particularly, the medical devices have a coating that includes a polymer that adheres to the surface of the medic...

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Hauptverfasser: DOROGY, JR. WILLIAM E, RIZQ RAED, ARCAND BEN, WEBER JAN, KANGAS STEVE
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed herein are medical devices, such as intravascular stents, for delivering a therapeutic agent to the body tissue of a patient, and a method for making such medical devices. More particularly, the medical devices have a coating that includes a polymer that adheres to the surface of the medical device so that the coating is able to resist damage during loading, deployment and implantation.