benefits the microtubes 102 in this embodiment may be enmeshed with each other and sintered together to form a structural member such as a pliant stratum 104 the therapeutic 105 may be applied to the microtubes 102 by soaking or any other effective method once prepared this implant may be inserted into the artery or other target site of the body for the short or long term delivery of therapeutic to the target site the medical implant described above may be any one of numerous medical implants including expandable stents stent grafts peripherally inserted central catheters piccs arterioventricular shunts a v shunts angio catheters embolic agents vena cava filters aneurism coils implantable prostheses and implantable fasteners these implants as well as others may be carried to a target site within the body by a medical device and then deployed in order to provide medical relief or repair to the targeted site they may also be deployed through more invasive procedures the implant in each of the above embodiments may also contain a tracer chemical to assist the practitioner positioning or otherwise deploying the implant for example when a tracer is employed an imaging system may be used to track the progress and position of a stent as it is snaked through a lumen in the body en route to reaching the target site the therapeutic can include pharmaceutically active compounds nucleic acids with and without carrier vectors such as lipids compacting agents such as histones virus such as adenovirus andenoassociated virus retrovirus lentivirus and a virus polymers hyaluronic acid proteins cells and the like with or without targeting sequences examples of therapeutics used in conjunction with the present invention include pharmaceutically active compounds proteins cells oligonucleotides ribozymes anti sense oligonucleotides dna compacting agents gene vector systems.