STENT

• Main Author: Ishida, Hiroki
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.05.2021
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

Provided is a stent that has high reliability to prevent an opaque member from coming off in a luminal structure and includes a strut and an opaque member attached to the strut with a high level of ease of attachment. A stent 11 according to the invention includes: a strut 17a extending in a predetermined direction; a first protrusion 40 provided on the strut 17a, the first protrusion 40 being substantially L-shaped and extending in a direction away from the strut 17a and in a direction toward a distal side in the predetermined direction; a second protrusion 41 that is provided on the strut 17a and located distal to the first protrusion 40, the second protrusion 41 being substantially L-shaped, extending in a direction away from the strut 17a and in a direction toward a proximal side in the predetermined direction, and having a tip 411 spaced apart from a tip 401 of the first protrusion 40; and an opaque member 31 being substantially tubular and highly opaque to radiation, the opaque member 31 having two end portions in which the first and second protrusions 40 and 41 are inserted, respectively.