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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
May. 06, 2004
Maria Torpo, Sundbyberg, SE;
Malin Öhlander, Stockholm, SE;
Anders Björling, Järfälla, SE;
Karin Ljungström, Hässelby, SE;
Maria Torpo, Sundbyberg, SE;
Malin Öhlander, Stockholm, SE;
Anders Björling, Järfälla, SE;
Karin Ljungström, Hässelby, SE;
St. Jude Medical AB, Jarfalla, SE;
Abstract
An implantable medical apparatus for detecting diastolic heart failure, DHF, has a DHF determining device for determining at least one DHF parameter for detecting a DHF state of the heart of a patient. The DHF includes circuitry for determining, as the DHF parameter, the time duration of a predetermined phase of diastole. A pacemaker has such an apparatus and a control unit that optimizes pacing therapy and pacemaker settings depending on the determined time duration. A corresponding method of detecting diastolic heart failure, DHF, includes determining at least one DHF parameter for detecting a DHF state of the heart of a patient. As the DHF parameter, the time duration of a predetermined phase of diastole is determined.