A luminal stent and a method of fabricating such a luminal stent are disclosed. The luminal stent has a tubular mesh structure formed of metal filaments braided with biodegradable filaments. The luminal stent has the following advantages: 1) it has a thinner wall which facilitates the application of the stent in a narrower vascular lumen with a reduced risk of causing vascular restenosis 2) it causes a mitigated rejection response of the human body to the presence of the deployed stent as a foreign object and is thus more favorable to tissue endothelialization and 3) it allows a higher mesh-hole density which makes it possible to change the hemodynamic behavior at a lesion site where the stent is deployed in a more desirable way.
