System and method for facilitating cardiac intervention

• US 20040049116A1
• Filed: 08/13/2003
• Published: 03/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capital Southwest Corporation
• Original Assignee: Chase Medical LP
• Inventors: Murphy, Gregory, Suresh, Mitta, Davis, Albert
• Granted Patent: US 7,536,042 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/30 Anatomical models G09B23/281 - G09B23/288 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/922 including image analysis

Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention discloses a computerized method of facilitating cardiac intervention, comprising inputting patient data, creating a computerized interactive model of a diseased heart based on the patient data, wherein the model comprises structural elements, simulating at least one proposed cardiac intervention treatment by adding or deleting structural elements to the model, and determining the effects of the proposed cardiac simulation upon the entire model. The simulating step may be repeated to allow the user to determine an optimal cardiac intervention. Additionally, a template may be created from the model to use as a guide during the cardiac intervention.

Claims

1. A computerized method of facilitating cardiac intervention, comprising:

inputting patient data,

creating a computerized interactive model of a diseased heart based on the patient data, wherein the model comprises structural elements,

simulating at least one proposed cardiac intervention treatment by adding or deleting structural elements to the model, and

determining the effects of the proposed cardiac simulation upon the entire model.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising repeating the simulating step for additional proposed cardiac intervention treatments to determine an optimal cardiac intervention.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising creating a template to use as a guide during the cardiac intervention.

4. A method of facilitating cardiac intervention, comprising:

obtaining patient data,

preoperatively determining a diseased portion of the left ventricle,

creating a template to identify the diseased portion of the left ventricle, and

using the template in cardiac intervention procedures.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising marking the template to indicate the diseased portion.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising fitting the template to the patient'"'"'s heart during a surgical procedure.

7. The method of claim 4 wherein the template is a balloon.

8. A computerized method of facilitating cardiac intervention, comprising:

inputting patient data,

creating a computerized interactive model of the heart from the patient data, wherein the model is comprised of structural elements, and

manipulating a portion of the structural elements to determine the effects of the manipulation on other structural elements.