Claims
- 1. A minimally invasive method for repairing a diseased portion of a first corporeal lumen of a patient's vasculature which includes a second corporeal lumen, comprising the steps of:intraluminally inserting a repair device in the second corporeal lumen at a location remote from the diseased portion of the first corporeal lumen; and using a catheter having a radially expandable inflatable portion to advance said repair device from the second corporeal lumen to the first corporeal lumen, said radially expandable inflatable portion engaging and expanding said repair device to implant said repair device in the first corporeal lumen in order to thereby repair the diseased portion of the corporeal lumen, said repair device being disassociated from said catheter and said radially expandable inflatable portion after implantation of said repair device.
- 2. The method of claim 1, wherein said repair device has a collapsed condition and an expanded condition, further comprising the steps of:making an opening in the second corporeal lumen; inserting said repair device in said collapsed condition and said radially expandable inflatable portion of said catheter into the second corporeal lumen through the opening; advancing said repair device to a desired position in the first corporeal lumen; inflating said radially expandable inflatable portion to expand said repair device to said expanded condition; and deflating said inflatable portion to disassociate said catheter from said repair device.
- 3. The method of claim 2, wherein said repair device is a hollow tubular member having first and second end portions in fluid communication, said first end portion having an intraluminal fastening device in operative associate therewith;wherein said first end of said repair device is implaced upstream said corporeal lumen and said inflation step causes said fastening device to fasten said first end within first said corporeal lumen.
- 4. A minimally invasive method for repairing a diseased portion of a first corporeal lumen of a patient's vasculature which includes a second corporeal lumen comprising the steps of:disposing a repair device upon a catheter; intraluminally inserting said repair device and said catheter within the second corporeal lumen at a location remote from the diseased portion; delivering said catheter and repair device through the patient's vasculature to a desired location proximate the diseased portion in the first corporeal lumen without surgically exposing the desired location of the first corporeal lumen; and providing controllable expansion of said repair device at the desired location within the first corporeal lumen by expanding a radially expandable inflatable portion of said catheter associated with said repair device to engage said repair device and to force said repair device radially outwardly to implant said repair device within the first corporeal lumen in order to thereby repair the diseased portion.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 08/342,438, filed Nov. 18, 1994 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,662,700 which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/175,491, filed Dec. 29, 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,397,345, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/034,587, filed Mar. 22, 1993, now abandoned, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/752,058, filed Aug. 29, 1991, now abandoned, which is a divisional of application Ser. No. 07/166,093, filed Mar. 9, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,104,399, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 06/940,907, filed Dec. 10, 1986, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,787,899, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 06/559,935, filed on Dec. 9, 1983, now abandoned. The contents of these applications are hereby incorporated by reference.
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