Heart muscle stimulator and pacing method for treating hypertension
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1. A method, carried out with an implanted heart muscle stimulator, for treating blood pressure disorders in a patient comprising the steps of:
- measuring the patient'"'"'s pre treatment blood pressure (BP), with an external or implanted sensor, corresponding to both a pretreatment cardiac ejection profile and a pretreatment cardiac contractility profile;
comparing the measured pre treatment blood pressure with a treatment threshold;
stimulating the patient'"'"'s heart with an electrical stimulus at one or more times and/or locations to alter the cardiac ejection profile thereby reducing the measured blood pressure from the pretreatment blood pressure value.
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The method calls for the periodic electrical stimulation of the heart muscle to alter the ejection profile of the heart thus reducing the observed blood pressure of the patient. The therapy may be invoked by an implantable blood pressure sensor associated with a pacemaker like device.
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1. A method, carried out with an implanted heart muscle stimulator, for treating blood pressure disorders in a patient comprising the steps of:
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measuring the patient'"'"'s pre treatment blood pressure (BP), with an external or implanted sensor, corresponding to both a pretreatment cardiac ejection profile and a pretreatment cardiac contractility profile;
comparing the measured pre treatment blood pressure with a treatment threshold;
stimulating the patient'"'"'s heart with an electrical stimulus at one or more times and/or locations to alter the cardiac ejection profile thereby reducing the measured blood pressure from the pretreatment blood pressure value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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