The invention relates to a stent (10) for placement at the aortic annulus that is expandable from an un-deployed state into a deployed state and that comprises:a stent frame (12) that has an inferior section (2) and a superior section (1) and that is formed from a plurality of elongate struts (14), with the plurality of elongate struts (14) being connected one to another at points of connection (16A, 16B) to form a plurality of stent cells (18) formed of vertices at the points of connection (16A, 16B) and respective sections (1) of the plurality of elongate struts (14) and a plurality of eyelets (16), with at least some of the plurality of eyelets (16) forming at least some of the vertices at the points of connection (16A, 16B) between the elongate struts (14).
