Apparatus and method for deploying an implantable device within the body
AssigneeDuke Fiduciary, LLC
InventorsBrice Arnault De La Menardiere, Frederich Albert Alavar, Robert Laduca, Paul Laduca
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Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for deploying implantable devices within the body. The delivery and deployment systems include at least one catheter or an assembly of catheters for selectively positioning the lumens of the implant to within target vessels. Various deployment and attachment mechanisms are provided for selectively deploying the implants.
Claims6
A method of implanting a device at a target site within vasculature comprising a main vessel and at least one side branch vessel in fluid communication with the main vessel, the device comprising a main lumen and at least one branched lumen extending laterally therefrom, the method comprising:
- providing a catheter system within which the device has been operatively loaded wherein each of a proximal end and distal end of the main lumen and the free end of the at least one branched lumen is releasably attached to the catheter system;
- creating an incision within the vasculature;
- advancing the catheter system through the vasculature from the incision to a target site;
- advancing the distal end of the main lumen from a distal end of the catheter system wherein the distal end of the main lumen remains releasably attached to the system;
- advancing the free end of the at least one branched lumen from a distal end of the catheter system wherein the free end remains releasably attached to the system;
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- detaching at least one of the advanced lumenal ends from the system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.