US 12,239,840 B2
Delivery of cardiac pacing therapy for cardiac remodeling
Vinod Sharma, Maple Grove, MN (US); Teresa A. Whitman, Dayton, MN (US); and Troy E. Jackson, Rogers, MN (US)
Assigned to Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on May 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/734,958.
Application 17/734,958 is a division of application No. 16/441,738, filed on Jun. 14, 2019, granted, now 11,318,314.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/684,828, filed on Jun. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0257954 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 1/365 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/362 (2006.01); A61N 1/368 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36592 (2013.01) [A61N 1/3627 (2013.01); A61N 1/36521 (2013.01); A61N 1/36114 (2013.01); A61N 1/3684 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
delivering cardiac remodeling pacing when the patient is inactive by delivering electrical pulses to the patient's heart to increase the patient's heart rate to stimulate one or more of dilation of chambers and muscular endurance of the patient's heart during a plurality of sessions over a period of time, wherein the period of time is greater than or equal to one week, wherein the cardiac remodeling pacing is suspended between each of the plurality of sessions;
monitoring one or more parameters, wherein at least one of the one or more parameters is indicative of an effect of the delivered cardiac remodeling pacing on one or more of dilation of chambers and muscular endurance of the patient's heart;
determining a long-term effect of the delivered cardiac remodeling pacing on one or more of dilation of chambers and muscular endurance of the patient's heart based on the one or more parameters monitored over the period of time, wherein the long-term effect of the delivered cardiac remodeling pacing on one or more of dilation of chambers and muscular endurance of the patient's heart is indicative of the effect of the delivered cardiac remodeling pacing on one or more of dilation of chambers and muscular endurance of the patient's heart over the period of time;
adjusting the cardiac remodeling pacing during a present session of the plurality of sessions in response to the one or more parameters monitored during the present session of the plurality of sessions; and
adjusting the cardiac remodeling pacing in response to the determined long-term effect on one or more of dilation of chambers and muscular endurance of the patient's heart.