Patent ID: 8128680
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method of implanting a device at a target site within an aortic arch adjacent at least one side branch vessel in fluid communication with the aortic arch, 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 within the aortic arch; 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 within the aortic arch; advancing the free end of the at least one branched lumen from a distal end of the catheter system into the side branch vessel while the main lumen remains within the aortic arch and wherein the free end remains releasably attached to the catheter system wherein tension applied to the distal end of at least one side branch luminal end elongates the at least one side branch lumen during advancement into the side branch vessel and where controlling the tension allows expanding and maintaining the side branch lumen in a partially deployed state prior to releasing from the catheter system into a fully deployed state; detaching at least one of the advanced luminal ends from the system to implant the device.