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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2009
David R. Fischell, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Robert E. Fischell, Dayton, MD (US);
Jonathan Harwood, Rumson, NJ (US);
Steven R. Johnson, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
David R. Fischell, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Robert E. Fischell, Dayton, MD (US);
Jonathan Harwood, Rumson, NJ (US);
Steven R. Johnson, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Angel Medical Systems, Inc., Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a 'tracker system' that includes implanted electrical leads which are part of an implanted cardiotracker plus external equipment that includes external alarm means and a physician's programmer. The tracker system is designed to monitor the degradation of a patient's cardiovascular condition from one or more causes. These causes include the rejection of a transplanted heart and/or the progression of a stenosis in a coronary artery. As one or more stenoses in a coronary artery become progressively more narrow thereby causing reduced blood flow to the heart muscle coronary circulation, the tracker system can alert the patient by either or both internal and/or external alarm means to take the appropriate medical action. The physician's programmer can be used to display histograms of key heart signal parameters that are indicative of the patient's cardiovascular condition.