Patent ID: 8491459

Claim:
A method of treating a vessel aneurysm, the method comprising: placing a vessel harness comprising a plurality of interconnected elastic bending hinges circumferentially around a vessel aneurysm such that the aneurysm is spanned by the harness, wherein the harness is configured to apply a compressive pressure against a surface of the adventitia of the vessel, wherein the harness is placed using a minimally invasive approach; providing twin catheters with the vessel harness mounted on distal end portions of the catheters; inserting the catheters such that the distal end portions of the catheters lie positioned proximate to the vessel oriented along its longitudinal axis; extending a portion of the distal end portions to which the harness is mounted while a remainder of the distal end portions of the catheters remain in place, such that a longitudinal extent of the aneurysm of the vessel is spanned by the harness; and rotating one of the catheters around the circumference of the vessel so as to span a surface the aneurysm.