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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2001
Alain Ripart, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR;
Ela Medical, Montrouge, FR;
Abstract
A single-path lead for an active implantable medical device of the implantable defibrillator/cardioverter type. The lead includes a lead body ( ) carrying first ( ) and second ( ) atrial electrodes for sensing an atrial cardiac signal, first ( ) and second ( ) ventricular electrodes for sensing a ventricular cardiac signal, one ( ) of these ventricular electrodes also being an electrode for use in the application of defibrillation or cardioversion energy (shock pulses), and a supra-ventricular electrode ( ) for use in the application of the aforementioned shock energy for the defibrillation or cardioversion. An electric connection ( ), preferably internal to the lead, joins together one of the atrial electrodes ( ) and the supra-ventricular electrode ( ), the aforementioned atrial cardiac signal being collected by the lead between, on the one hand, the supra-ventricular electrode ( ) and the atrial electrode ( ) which is connected to it and, on the second hand, the other atrial electrode ( ).