Vanagt
Ward Y.r. Vanagt, Maastricht NL
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20090043348 | INTERMITTENT STRESS AUGMENTATION PACING FOR CARDIOPROTECTIVE EFFECT - A device and method for delivering electrical stimulation to the heart in a manner which provides a protective effect is disclosed. The protective effect is produced by configuring a cardiac pacing device to intermittently switch from a normal operating mode to a stress augmentation mode in which the spatial pattern of lo depolarization is varied to thereby subject a particular region or regions of the ventricular myocardium to increased mechanical stress. | 02-12-2009 |
20130268014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACING DURING REVASCULARIZATION - A system for use during revascularization includes a catheter having an adjustable balloon for delivery a stent, one or more pacing electrodes for delivering one or more pacing pulses to a patient's heart, and a pacemaker configured to generate the one or more pacing pulses to be delivered to the heart via the one or more pacing electrodes. The one or more pacing pulses are delivered at a rate substantially higher than the patient's intrinsic heart rate without being synchronized to the patient's intrinsic cardiac contractions, and are delivered before, during, or after an ischemic event to prevent or reduce cardiac injury. | 10-10-2013 |
Ward Y.r. Vanagt US
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20110137363 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING AND DELIVERING CARDIAC PROTECTION PACING - A pacing system delivers cardiac protection pacing to protect the heart from injuries associated with ischemic events. The pacing system detects an ischemic event and, in response, initiates one or more cardiac protection pacing sequences each including alternative pacing and non-pacing periods. In one embodiment, the pacing system initiates a cardiac protection pacing sequence in response to the detection of the onset of an ischemic event, such that a pacing concurrent conditioning therapy is applied during the detected ischemic event. | 06-09-2011 |
Ward Y. R. Vanagt, Maastricht NL
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20090143835 | Method and apparatus for delivering pacing pulses using a coronary stent - An implantable cardiac protection pacing system delivers pacing pulses to protect the heart from injuries associated with ischemia and myocardial infarction. The system includes an implantable pulse generator (PG) that delivers the pacing pulses and a coronary stent electrically connected to the implantable PG to function as a pacing electrode through which the pacing pulses are delivered. In one embodiment, an intravascular lead provides the electrical connection between the coronary stent and the implantable PG to allow the implantable PG to be implanted in the femoral region. In another embodiment, the coronary stent and the implantable PG are integrated into an intravascular pulse generator-stent. | 06-04-2009 |
Ward Y. R. Vanagt US
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20110230928 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACING DURING REVASCULARIZATION - Cardiac protection pacing is applied to prevent or reduce cardiac injury and/or occurrences of arrhythmia associated with an ischemic event including the occlusion of a blood vessel during a revascularization procedure. Pacing pulses are generated from a pacemaker and delivered through one or more pacing electrodes incorporated onto a percutaneous transluminal vascular intervention (PTVI) device used in the revascularization procedure. The pacemaker generates the pacing pulses according to a predetermined cardiac protection pacing sequence before, during, and/or after the ischemic event. | 09-22-2011 |