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Integrated cardiac rhythm management system with heart valve

  • US 7,643,879 B2
  • Filed: 08/24/2006
  • Issued: 01/05/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus comprising:

  • a heart valve, including a physiological sensor, the heart valve adapted for implantation into a subject, the physiological sensor including;

    an intrinsic electrical cardiac signal sensor configured to sense an electrical cardiac signal at the heart valve; and

    a hemodynamic parameter sensor configured to sense at the heart valve a hemodynamic parameter indicative of a blood hemodynamic characteristic sensed at the heart valve; and

    an implantable electronics unit wirelessly coupled via a non-RF intrabody communication link to the physiological sensor of the heart valve to receive physiological information about the intrinsic electrical cardiac signal sensed at the heart valve and the hemodynamic parameter sensed at the heart valve, the electronics unit adapted to use the received physiological information to control delivery of an electrical output to the subject.

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