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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Cvrx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Eric Grant Lovett, Mendota Heights, MN (US);
Nadim Yared, Medina, MN (US);
CVRx, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods for use of identification, treatment and/or management of heart failure and/or associated conditions. Methods may include providing a baroreflex therapy system, providing an implantable measurement device proximate a blood vessel of a patient, the implantable measurement device including a plurality of electrodes, determining an impedance of the blood vessel with the implantable measurement device over a time period of at least one cardiac cycle, generating at least one signal representative of a pressure waveform based on the impedance, activating, deactivating or otherwise modulating the baroreflex therapy system to deliver a therapy to treat heart failure based at least in part on the at least one signal representative of the pressure waveform.