Patent ID: 8155744

Claim:
A method for treating asthma in a subject, said method comprising the steps of: inserting a therapy delivery device into a pulmonary artery of the subject; advancing the therapy delivery device to a point substantially adjacent an intraluminal target site of the autonomic nervous system (ANS); and activating the therapy delivery device to deliver a therapy signal to the intraluminal target site of the ANS to treat the asthma; wherein the intraluminal target site is in electrical communication with nervous tissue selected from the group consisting of a spinal nerve, pre- or post-ganglionic autonomic fibers, a sympathetic chain ganglion, a thoracic sympathetic chain ganglion, a cervical ganglion, a lower cervical ganglion, an inferior cervical ganglion, an intramural ganglion, a splanchnic nerve, an esophageal plexus, a cardiac plexus, a pulmonary plexus, an anterior pulmonary plexus, a posterior pulmonary plexus, a celiac plexus, a hypogastric plexus, an inferior mesenteric ganglion, a celiac ganglion, and a superior mesenteric ganglion.