Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Cardiovascular
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-02
2005-08-02
Nasser, Robert L. (Department: 3736)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Cardiovascular
C600S481000, C607S009000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06923772
ABSTRACT:
A device for measuring a synchronicity of contraction of a heart to determine if an individual would be a responder to cardiac resynchronization therapy. The device may include a first electrode positioned at a first ventricular wall location to measure movement of the first ventricular wall location and generate a first signal, as well as a second electrode positioned at a second ventricular wall location to measure movement of the second ventricular wall location and generate a second signal. A processing module may process the first and second signals, for example, integrate the signals multiple times, and generate an output based on the processed signals. Based on this output, an individual can be labeled a responder or non-responder to cardiac resynchronization therapy. The electrodes may each include an accelerometer to measure acceleration of the heart wall.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5496361 (1996-03-01), Moberg et al.
patent: 6197610 (2001-03-01), Toda
patent: 6766189 (2004-07-01), Yu et al.
patent: 2002/0143264 (2002-10-01), Ding et al.
patent: 2003/0176896 (2003-09-01), Lincoln et al.
NASPE Abstract No. 773;Evaluation of Variation in Wall Motion by Multisite Pacing with a New Fiberoptical Sensing System; Axel Kloppe, Axel Prenger-Berninghoff, Stefan Mueller, Joern Weckmueller, Martin Hexamer, and Juergen Werner. Biomed Engineering, Bochum, Germany.
Ding Jiang
Yu Yinghong
Zhu Qingsheng
Cardiac Pacemakers Inc.
Mallari Patricia
Merchant & Gould P.C.
Nasser Robert L.
LandOfFree
Apparatus and method for determining responders to cardiac... does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Apparatus and method for determining responders to cardiac..., we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Apparatus and method for determining responders to cardiac... will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3444002