The invention relates to a stent that can be implanted and redilated and that is tubularly constructed from elongate webs (11, 11", 11") that form a wall of the implant, the webs being plastically deformable in such a way that the implant (10) remains permanently widened in the expanded state in the radial direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the webs. The stent is characterized in that at least one of the webs (11) has an expandable element (12, 12"), which forms a web section within said web (11), in which web section the expandable element extends partially geometrically and transversely to the longitudinal axis of the web in the contracted state, wherein the course of the expandable element has several direction changes relative to said longitudinal axis. The stent is further characterized in that the material, thickness, and web width of the expandable element are selected in such a way that by applying force in the radial direction of the tubular implant, the expandable element can be put into a permanently expanded state by means of plastic elongation, in which permanently expanded state the web section that forms the expandable element has a greater geometric extent transversely to the longitudinal axis and a smaller extent in the direction of the longitudinal axis than in the contracted state. The expandability of the stent is thus increased considerably.
