Devices and methods are provided for an implantable medical device which
is degradable over a clinically relevant period of time. The medical
devices may have the form of implants, graft implants, vascular implants,
non vascular implants, wound closure implants, sutures, drug delivery
implants, biologic delivery implants, urinary tract implants,
inter-uterine implants, organ implants, bone implants including bone
plates, bone screws, dental implants, spinal disks, or the like. In
preferred embodiments, the implantable medical device comprises an
implantable luminal prosthesis, such as vascular and non-vascular stents
and stents grafts.