A catheter for delivering a therapeutic or diagnostic agent to a branch
blond vessel of a major blood vessel comprises an elongated shaft having
at least one lumen in fluid communication with an agent delivery port in
a distal section of the shaft, an expandable tubular member on the distal
section of the shaft, and a radially expandable member on the tubular
member. The tubular member is configured to extend within the blood
vessel up-stream and down-stream of a branch vessel, and has an interior
passageway which is radially expandable within the blood vessel to
separate blood flow through the blood vessel into an outer blood flow
stream exterior to the tubular member and an inner blood flow stream
within the interior passageway of the tubular member.