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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2007
Joseph M. Pastore, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Julio C. Spinelli, Shoreview, MN (US);
Helen L. Reeve, St. Paul, MN (US);
Jeffrey Ross, Roseville, MN (US);
Rodney W. Salo, Fridley, MN (US);
Allan Shuros, St. Paul, MN (US);
Joseph M. Pastore, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Julio C. Spinelli, Shoreview, MN (US);
Helen L. Reeve, St. Paul, MN (US);
Jeffrey Ross, Roseville, MN (US);
Rodney W. Salo, Fridley, MN (US);
Allan Shuros, St. Paul, MN (US);
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A drug delivery system detects a cardiac condition indicative of a need for increasing a cardiac metabolic level and, in response, releases a drug into tissue or blood to shift a source of metabolically synthesized energy fueling cardiac contraction from fatty acid to glucose. One example of such a system includes an implantable device detecting an ischemia and a transdermal drug delivery device delivering a drug when an ischemic condition is detected. Another example of such a system includes one or more implantable devices detecting a predefined change in cardiac metabolic level and delivering a drug when the change is detected. Such systems are applied to treat, for example, patients suffering ischemia and/or heart failure and patients having suffered myocardial infarction.