Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

Ward Y Vanagt

Julio Cesar Spinelli

Joseph M Pastore

Richard N Cornelussen

Frits W Prinzen

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 depolarization is varied to thereby subject a particular region or regions of the ventricular myocardium to increased mechanical stress.

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 against subsequent ischemia 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 depolarization is varied to thereby subject a particular region or regions of the ventricular myocardium to increased mechanical stress.

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Maastricht, Netherlands

Ward Y Vanagt