Abstract: A stent valve insertable in a body vessel containing a body fluid. The stent valve includes: a valve for at least partially controlling the flow of the body fluid in the body vessel; and a scaffold, the scaffold including: an anchoring section for anchoring the scaffold to said body vessel and a valve supporting section supporting the valve. The scaffold is substantially radially expandable from a scaffold retracted configuration to a scaffold expanded configuration. The valve supporting section is expandable over a greater range of radial expansion than the anchoring section.

Abstract: A stent valve insertable in a body vessel containing a body fluid. The stent valve includes: a valve for at least partially controlling the flow of the body fluid in the body vessel; and a scaffold, the scaffold including : an anchoring section for anchoring the scaffold to said body vessel and a valve supporting section supporting the valve. The scaffold is substantially radially expandable from a scaffold retracted configuration to a scaffold expanded configuration. The valve supporting section is expandable over a greater range of radial expansion than the anchoring section.

Abstract: A stent including a substantially radially expandable scaffold including interlinked struts, the scaffold being configurable into both a retracted and an expanded configuration. In the retracted configuration, the diameter of the scaffold along at least a portion thereof is smaller than the diameter of the scaffold the expanded configuration. The stent further includes a sheath mounted to the scaffold so that at least some of the struts are embedded into the sheath. The sheath allows a substantially radial movement of the struts between the expanded and the retracted configurations with the at least some of the struts remaining embedded in the sheath during the substantially radial movement.

Abstract: A stent valve includes a scaffold, the scaffold including interlinked struts, the scaffold having a scaffold passageway extending substantially longitudinally therethrough. The stent valve also includes a valve leaflet extending at least partially across the scaffold passageway, the valve leaflet defining a leaflet periphery. At least a portion of the leaflet periphery extends integrally from at least a portion of at least one of the struts and at least a portion of the leaflet periphery is substantially parallel to the at least a portion of said at least one of said struts.