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Cardiac Stimulation Apparatus And Method For The Control Of Hypertension

  • US 20160220824A1
  • Filed: 04/07/2016
  • Published: 08/04/2016
  • 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 systemic blood pressure corresponding to a pretreatment cardiac ejection profile and having an intrinsic temporal contraction sequence between an atrial chamber and a ventricular chamber of the heart, the method comprising:

  • stimulating the patient'"'"'s heart with an electrical stimulus timed relative to the patient'"'"'s cardiac ejection cycle to alter the intrinsic temporal contraction sequence between the atrial chamber and the ventricular chamber,wherein altering the intrinsic temporal contraction sequence alters the patient'"'"'s cardiac ejection profile from the pretreatment cardiac ejection profile and reduces the patient'"'"'s systemic blood pressure from the pretreatment systemic blood pressure.

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