Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices that have a steerable portion and an external controller. The steerable portion has a first tubular member comprising a flexible polymeric tubular member that comprises a wall of solid material along the steerable portion, the first tubular member configured to preferentially bend, and a second tubular member, wherein one of the first and second tubular members is disposed within the other, wherein the first and second tubular members are permanently axially fixed relative to one another at a fixation location distal to the steerable portion.

Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices and their methods of use.

Abstract: Methods and devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via carotid body ablation. The methods may be performed using an ultrasound ablation catheter. The methods may also include imaging using at least one ultrasound imaging catheter.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for deploying implantable devices within the body. The delivery and deployment systems include at least one catheter or an assembly of catheters for selectively positioning the lumens of the implant to within target vessels. Various deployment and attachment mechanisms are provided for selectively deploying the implants.

Abstract: Methods for placing a stent in a branched vessel include stretching the stent, aligning the stent within a target location at a branched vessel and releasing it for expansion at the target location.

Abstract: A catheter system for accessing the central venous system through an occlusion in the neck region.

Abstract: Steerable medical devices and methods of use. In some embodiments the steerable medical devices include a steerable portion with a stiffness that varies in the steerable portion.

Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices and their methods of use.

Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices and their methods of use.

Abstract: A catheter system for accessing the central venous system through an occlusion in the neck region.

Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices and their methods of use.

Abstract: A steerable delivery device comprising an outer sheath and an inner sheath disposed within the outer sheath, wherein the outer sheath includes a first tubular element, a steerable portion adapted to be steered, and wherein in a cross section along the steerable portion the first tubular element includes a first section of a first material with a first durometer and a second section of a second material with a second durometer different than the first durometer.

Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices and their methods of use.

Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices and their methods of use.

Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices and their methods of use.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for deploying implantable devices within the body. The delivery and deployment systems include at least one catheter or an assembly of catheters for selectively positioning the lumens of the implant to within target vessels. Various deployment and attachment mechanisms are provided for selectively deploying the implants.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to vascular implants and methods for fabricating the same. The implantable devices include but are not limited to stents, grafts and stent grafts. The devices may include a biomaterial, such as an extracellular matrix, coated or attached to at least a portion of the device. The devices may be constructed of a single woven wire to form at least a main lumen having proximal and distal ends. In many embodiments, the devices include one or more side branch lumens interconnected with the main lumen.