St Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc

St. Jude Medical Ab

Cecilia Emanuelsson

Nils Holmström

Kjell Noren

Anders Björling

Karin Järverud

Hans Abrahamson

Karin Ljungström

Michael Broome

Torbjorn Persson

In response to local or systemic inflammation in a patient, photobiomodulation therapy is applied to a cardiac location to reduce the risk and/or occurrence of cardiac arrhythmia. Once inflammation is identified, photobiomodulation therapy can be applied in any suitable fashion (e.g., via a catheter- or transesophageal probe-mounted photoemitter, via an externally-applied photoemitter, or via photoemitter incorporated into an implantable medical device). Photobiomodulation therapy can also be employed to good advantage in conjunction with non-photobiomodulation therapy (e.g., traditional cardiac rhythm management therapies).

Method of reducing the occurrence of arrhythmias via photobiomodulation and apparatus for same

Hypertension is treated in a patient by implanting an ablation stent in a renal artery of the patient. Energy is transmitted to the ablation stent to induce heating of the ablation stent, which causes ablation of a renal sympathetic nerve present on the outside of the portion of the renal artery comprising the ablation stent. A preferred ablation stent is in the form of an N-turn coil of an electrically conductive wire forming a meander structure. The respective ends of the wire are electrically connected to each other.

Ablation stent with meander structure

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Märsta, Sweden

Cecilia Emanuelsson