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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2007
Applicants:
Euljoon Park, Valencia, CA (US);
You-ho Kim, Seoul, KR;
Taraneh Ghaffari Farazi, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Pacesetter, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An implantable cardiac stimulation device and method provide electrical stimulation therapy to stabilize the ventricular rate of a heart during episodes of atrial fibrillation. The stimulation therapy may be a plurality of stimulation pulses delivered to the AV node during the AV node refractory period following the sensing of an atrial event. Alternatively, the stimulation therapy may be a plurality of sub-threshold stimulation pulses delivered to capture AV node vagal innervations following the detection of atrial fibrillation.