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Cardiac Stimulation Apparatus And Method For The Control Of Hypertension

  • US 20120041502A1
  • Filed: 10/26/2011
  • Published: 02/16/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, carried out with an implanted heart muscle stimulator associated with a heart of a patient, for treating a blood pressure disorder in the patient, the patient having a pretreatment blood pressure corresponding to a pretreatment cardiac ejection profile, the method comprising:

  • stimulating the patient'"'"'s heart with an electrical stimulus timed relative to the patient'"'"'s cardiac ejection cycle to cause dyssynchrony between at least two cardiac chambers and alter the patient'"'"'s cardiac ejection profile from the pretreatment cardiac ejection profile, thereby reducing the patient'"'"'s blood pressure from the pretreatment blood pressure.

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