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Method to enhance cardiac capillary growth in heart failure patients

  • US 6,473,644 B1
  • Filed: 10/13/1999
  • Issued: 10/29/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/13/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of treating patients suffering from heart failure, which comprises the steps of:

  • stimulating the patient'"'"'s vagus nerve with electrical pulses generated at a predetermined repetition frequency to reduce the patient'"'"'s heart rate toward a target rate range below the lowest heart rate of the patient while at rest; and

    keeping the stimulation frequency at a set value when the patient'"'"'s heart stabilizes at said target rate, to maintain the heart rate within said target rate range.

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