Ovarian neuromodulation and associated systems and methods

A method, comprising:

• percutaneously introducing a neuromodulation assembly at a distal portion of a treatment device within an ovarian artery proximate to neural fibers innervating an ovary of a human patient diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome;
• at least partially disrupting function of the neural fibers innervating the ovary by applying thermal energy to the neural fibers innervating the ovary via the neuromodulation assembly;
• and
• removing the neuromodulation assembly from the human patient after treatment,
• wherein at least partial disruption of the function of the neural fibers innervating the ovary reduces a number of ovarian cysts in the human patient.

A method for treating polycystic ovary syndrome in a human patient, the method comprising:

• positioning an energy delivery element of an ovarian denervation catheter within an ovarian blood vessel of the human patient and adjacent to post-ganglionic neural fibers that innervate an ovary of the human patient;
• and
• at least partially ablating the post-ganglionic neural fibers innervating the ovary of the human patient via the energy delivery element,
• wherein at least partially ablating the post-ganglionic neural fibers innervating the ovary results in a therapeutically beneficial reduction in the expansion of or the size of one or more ovarian cysts in the human patient having polycystic ovary syndrome.