ARTICULATED STENT

摘要

The present invention relates to an articulated stent which is implanted by angioplasy, as part of a baloon within an anatomic vessel of a living animal or human being in order to maintain the vessel permeability The invention relates particularly to intravascular articulated stents deliverable through or implantable in a blood vessel having a curved portion According to the invention, the intravascular articulated stent is provided with some connectors (110) for connecting adjacent areas of adjacent segments (102) of an articulated stent, the connectors including a plurality of linking elements (112) wherein each of the flexible linking elements includes a plurality of portions with each pair of neighbouring portions having an area of inflection between them and wherein, during expansion of said stent, the inflection area of each linking element remains inflected