Patent ID: 9636242
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61M

Claim:
1. A method for deploying a luminal prosthesis over a carina between an ipsilateral lumen and a contralateral lumen, said method comprising: placing a guidewire over the carina between the ipsilateral lumen and the contralateral lumen, wherein the ipsilateral lumen has an occlusion adjacent the carina and wherein placing the guidewire comprises advancing the guidewire through a subintima adjacent the carina past the occlusion in the ipsilateral lumen, over the carina, and into the contralateral lumen; advancing a delivery catheter having a tubular prosthesis on a distal surface thereof over the guidewire so that the tubular prosthesis is positioned through the subintima in the ipsilateral lumen, over the carina, and into the contralateral lumen, wherein the tubular prosthesis is self-expanding and is constrained in a low profile configuration on the delivery catheter and wherein the tubular prosthesis is constrained by a sheath; and expanding a first segment of the prosthesis in the occlusion in the ipsilateral lumen and a second segment of the prosthesis in the contralateral lumen, wherein deploying the prosthesis comprises retracting the sheath relative to the prosthesis.