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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Randal Schulhauser, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Richard Brown, Mesa, AZ (US);
Gerard Bast, Chandler, AZ (US);
Dorothy Dominiack, Chandler, AZ (US);
William Harding, Chandler, AZ (US);
Patrick Kinzie, Glendale, AZ (US);
Jeff Cherry, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Sneha Saikia, Tempe, AZ (US);
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for detecting valvular malfunction includes a monitoring device and a processor. The monitoring device includes a heart sound sensor configured to detect heart sounds of the patient, and a signal processor. The processor is configured to receive a signal representative of the detected heart sounds from the signal processor, wherein the processor is configured to compare the signal to a baseline signal stored in memory. The processor may be part of the monitoring device or may be part of an external device, or both.