A mechanical dilatation and medicament delivery device for enlarging a
flow passage of a vessel by dilating and delivering a therapeutic agent
or medicament to an obstruction in the vessel. The present invention
comprises a substantially cylindrically shaped expansion member and
includes a means engaged to the expansion member for altering the
distance between the proximal end and the distal end of the expansion
member thereby transforming the expansion member between a diametrically
contracted configuration to diametrically expanded configuration. A
therapeutic agent or medicament is coated on either the expansion member,
or incorporated into a substrate coated on the expansion member.The
present method comprises the steps of advancing the coated expansion
member to the obstruction in a vessel and applying opposed forces on said
expansion member in an axial direction to move the expansion member to an
expanded configuration wherein the expansion member dilates the
obstruction and the expansion member either passively or actively
delivers a therapeutic agent or medicament to the obstruction.