Abstract: A vascular treatment device for use in a vessel includes a catheter and a microvalve occluder. The occluder includes braided elastic strands, each with a proximal portion, a central portion, and a distal portion, that are fixed to the outer surface of the catheter. The elastic strands. In an embodiment, the distal portions are attached circumferentially about an outer surface of the catheter at a location toward the distal end of the catheter, the central portions extend proximal and radially outward from the distal end, and the proximal portions of the strands are inverted back radially within the central portions are and coupled circumferentially about the outer surface of the catheter at a location proximally displaced from the distal portions. The proximal portion of the microvalve is coated in a fluid-impermeable membrane, and the distal portions of the strands are substantially uncoated.

Abstract: A method is provided to modulated vascular adaptation within a tumor so that therapy uptake is increased. The method includes providing a pressure directed therapy system having an infusion lumen, an occluder, a pressure sensor to sense pressure distal of the occluder. The distal end of the system is advanced to a target artery of an organ. The pressure in the target artery is reduced by expanding the occluder at the distal end of the system. Then, the therapy is infused through the infusion lumen and into the target artery. Upon sensing decreased pressure and thus vessel adaptation, infusion is stopped until vessel re-adaptation occurs. Then infusion resumes. The infusion continues in a cycle of therapy infusing, sensing pressure and determining vessel adaptation, waiting, and resuming once re-adaptation occurs until the therapy dose is delivered to the patient.

Abstract: A vascular treatment device for use in a vessel includes a catheter and a microvalve occluder. The occluder includes braided elastic strands, each with a proximal portion, a central portion, and a distal portion, that are fixed to the outer surface of the catheter. The elastic strands. In an embodiment, the distal portions are attached circumferentially about an outer surface of the catheter at a location toward the distal end of the catheter, the central portions extend proximal and radially outward from the distal end, and the proximal portions of the strands are inverted back radially within the central portions are and coupled circumferentially about the outer surface of the catheter at a location proximally displaced from the distal portions. The proximal portion of the microvalve is coated in a fluid-impermeable membrane, and the distal portions of the strands are substantially uncoated.

Abstract: A vascular treatment device for use in a vessel includes a catheter and a microvalve occluder. The occluder includes braided elastic strands, each with a proximal portion, a central portion, and a distal portion, that are fixed to the outer surface of the catheter. The elastic strands. In an embodiment, the distal portions are attached circumferentially about an outer surface of the catheter at a location toward the distal end of the catheter, the central portions extend proximal and radially outward from the distal end, and the proximal portions of the strands are inverted back radially within the central portions are and coupled circumferentially about the outer surface of the catheter at a location proximally displaced from the distal portions. The proximal portion of the microvalve is coated in a fluid-impermeable membrane, and the distal portions of the strands are substantially uncoated.

Abstract: A treatment device for use in a vessel includes a catheter and a microvalve. A flexible low friction reconfigurable cover is attached at or adjacent a distal end of the microvalve. The cover is deployed between the occluder and the vessel wall to intervene between the occluder and the vessel wall during movement of the occluder relative to the vessel wall to reduce occurrence of vascular spasm.

Abstract: A microcatheter is provided with a vascular spasm-inducing probe at its distal end. The spasm-inducing probe can include an electrical current, radiofrequency energy, ultrasound, chemical, or thermal modulator. When the spasm-inducing probe is activated in a vessel, the vessel narrows about the element. This permits a therapeutic agent to be delivered through the infusion lumen and out of the orifice under high pressure, while the narrowing of the vessel operates as a pseudo-valve and prevents reflux of the therapeutic agent past the narrowing of the vessel.

Abstract: Devices and systems and method for treating a patient are described herein that are used with or include at least one infusion catheter having a proximal end with a hub, a distal end with a distal tip, and a lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal tip. The devices include a connector body having a first connector for fluidly coupling and detachably connecting to the hub of the at least one infusion catheter, a second connector for fluidly coupling and detachably connecting to at least one manual syringe pump, and a passive pressure-controlled mechanical flow regulator that regulates fluid flow supplied by manual pump action of the least one manual syringe pump to the infusion catheter and delivered by the infusion catheter into the vascular system of the patient.

Abstract: A therapeutic device includes a catheter and a temporary vessel occluder. The vessel occluder has a plurality of elastic strands extending in a tubular arrangement from the first end to the second, a primer on the strands, and a polymer filter coating over the primer. The primer is unevenly distributed to the plurality of elastic strands between the plurality of elastic strands. The filter coated is applied over the primer and on the strands. A portion of the polymer coating may be removed.

Abstract: A vascular treatment device for use in a vessel includes a catheter and a microvalve occluder. The occluder includes braided elastic strands, each with a proximal portion, a central portion, and a distal portion, that are fixed to the outer surface of the catheter. The elastic strands. In an embodiment, the distal portions are attached circumferentially about an outer surface of the catheter at a location toward the distal end of the catheter, the central portions extend proximal and radially outward from the distal end, and the proximal portions of the strands are inverted back radially within the central portions are and coupled circumferentially about the outer surface of the catheter at a location proximally displaced from the distal portions. The proximal portion of the microvalve is coated in a fluid-impermeable membrane, and the distal portions of the strands are substantially uncoated.

Abstract: A treatment device for use in a vessel includes a catheter and a microvalve. A flexible low friction reconfigurable cover is attached at or adjacent a distal end of the microvalve. The cover is deployed between the occluder and the vessel wall to intervene between the occluder and the vessel wall during movement of the occluder relative to the vessel wall to reduce occurrence of vascular spasm.

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: 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.

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: 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.

Abstract: Described herein are methods and endovascular catheters, configured for delivery to a carotid artery from a subclavian artery approach, 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.

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.

Abstract: Methods and endovascular catheters 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 transmural carotid body ablation.