Surgery – Cardiac augmentation
Patent
1993-04-14
1994-11-15
Kamm, William E.
Surgery
Cardiac augmentation
623 3, A61M 112
Patent
active
053643372
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for providing assistance to a patient's heart using a surgically prepared skeletal muscle. A skeletal muscle, such as the latissimus dorsi, is carefully separated from the skeletal structure leaving enervation and vascularization in tact. The muscle tissue is then separated into two independent contractile masses. Alternatively, two separate skeletal muscles may be used. The first of these is wrapped about the atria. The second is wrapped about the ventricles. Each muscle mass is individually stimulated using an implantable pulse generator. Stimulation to the muscle mass is synchronized to the naturally or artificially paced contractions of the heart to provide the maximum in assistance. During each complete heart cycle, the muscle mass assisting the ventricles is stimulated at the same time as contraction of the ventricular myocardium. The muscle mass assisting the atria is then stimulated at the same time as contraction of the atrial myocardium. Various sensing and stimulating modes may be used to optimize cardiac assistance.
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Bourgeois Ivan
Guiraudon Gerard M.
Kamm William E.
Medtronic Inc.
Patton Harold R.
Schaetzle Kennedy J.
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