Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Structure of body-contacting electrode or electrode inserted...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-18
2007-12-18
Johnson, III, Henry M. (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Structure of body-contacting electrode or electrode inserted...
C128S898000, C600S374000, C600S377000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10409537
ABSTRACT:
A method and device are described to form a sensor using a cardiomyocyte by advancing a catheter into the tissue of interest, cardiac in the preferred embodiment, and using the catheter to ablate a cone- or a dome-shaped region to form an electrically isolated section of tissue. An electrode is later fixed to the region encompassed by the dome-shaped area of tissue and used to detect the electrophysiological activity of this electrically independent cluster of cells. These cells combined with the electrode and a detection circuitry will form a cell-based sensor to monitor the effects of the anti-arrhythmic drugs in the circulation. The inventive device includes an ablation catheter and a sensing lead. Catheter is a hollow conductor which used to carry RF power from the external generator to the myocardium and to form a cone-shaped ablation zone to electrically isolate a part of myocardium from the rest. Sensing lead is a conductor that carries electrical signals from the isolated myocardium back to the implanted monitoring device. Implantable device is the main unit for processing the signals coming back from the sensing lead.
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Collier Kenneth J.
Johnson, III Henry M.
Medtronic Inc.
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