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Current Designs of Self-Expanding Stents

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Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract

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A large variety of stent designs exist for the GI tract. Some are purpose-built devices; others are modified vascular stents. The main requirement for a GI stent is the ability to conform to tortuous anatomy while maintaining an adequate lumen through the stenosis. The application of nitinol has improved stent designs significantly, and alternative materials such as plastic and biodegradable polymers have widened the indications for stenting. This is important as surgical advances, particularly in organ transplantation and improved cancer treatments, increase the need for long-term patency with improved patient survival and increasing benign indications for stent insertion.

This chapter illustrates the current stent technology for application in the GI tract.

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The author would like to thank BVM Medical, COOK UK, Ella-CS, and UK Medical for their support with demonstration models and S&G Biotech for the provision of images from the manufacturing process.

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    Hans-Ulrich Laasch M.D.

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    Richard Kozarek

  2. , Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatol, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, 55905, Minnesota, USA

    Todd Baron

  3. , Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, Pungnap-2Dong 388-1, Seoul, 138-736, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Ho-Young Song

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Laasch, HU. (2013). Current Designs of Self-Expanding Stents. In: Kozarek, R., Baron, T., Song, HY. (eds) Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3746-8_4

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