ELLIPTICAL ELEMENT FOR BLOOD PRESSURE REDUCTION
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Abstract
Apparatus is provided for treating hypertension of a subject. The apparatus includes an implantable element which has a non-circular shape and which is configured to reduce the hypertension by facilitating an assumption of a non-circular shape by a blood vessel in a vicinity of a baroreceptor of the subject, during diastole of the subject. Other embodiments are also described.
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140 Claims
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1-123. -123. (canceled)
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124. Apparatus, comprising:
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an element configured to be placed inside a blood vessel of a subject in a vicinity of a baroreceptor, the element defining vessel-contacting regions configured to apply forces to separate contact regions of the blood vessel, the element being configured to stretch the blood vessel between the contact regions of the blood vessel; and the element being configured such that, during at least a portion of a cardiac cycle of the subject, a portion of the blood vessel that is between the contact regions does not contact the element. - View Dependent Claims (125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131)
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132. A method, comprising:
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identifying a subject as suffering from hypertension; and in response thereto; stretching a blood vessel of the subject in a vicinity of a baroreceptor, between a plurality of separate regions of the blood vessel, by applying forces to the plurality of regions of the blood vessel, by placing an element inside the subject'"'"'s blood vessel, the element defining vessel-contacting regions that apply the forces to the regions, the placing of the element inside the subject'"'"'s blood vessel being such that, during at least a portion of a cardiac cycle of the subject, a portion of the blood vessel that is between the regions does not contact the element. - View Dependent Claims (133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140)
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Specification