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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2011
Vinayakrishnan Rajan, Maastricht, NL;
Richard N. M. Cornelussen, Maastricht, NL;
Berthold Stegemann, Aachen, DE;
Lilian Kornet, Maastricht, NL;
Vinayakrishnan Rajan, Maastricht, NL;
Richard N. M. Cornelussen, Maastricht, NL;
Berthold Stegemann, Aachen, DE;
Lilian Kornet, Maastricht, NL;
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A method and medical device for delivering an atrial pacing pulse to an atrial chamber to generate an evoked atrial depolarization, delivering a stimulation pulse to an atrioventricular node during a stimulation window to increase a PR interval of the heart, the stimulation window having a start time corresponding to the delivered atrial pacing pulse so that the stimulation pulse is delivered during a refractory period corresponding to the evoked atrial depolarization, and delivering a ventricular pacing pulse to a first ventricular chamber during the increased PR interval to cause a contraction of the first ventricular chamber to occur prior to a contraction of a second ventricular chamber to increase dyssynchrony between the contraction of the first ventricular chamber and the contraction of the second ventricular chamber.