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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2015
Pacesetter, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fujian Qu, San Jose, CA (US);
Hoda Razavi, San Jose, CA (US);
Yelena Nabutovsky, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pacesetter, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for estimating a change in an intracardiac distance between systole and diastole. A system includes a pacing electrode configured to generate a pacing pulse, a sensing electrode configured to measure an electrical artifact corresponding to the pacing pulse, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the pacing electrode and the sensing electrode, the computing device configured to determine a first amplitude of a first electrical artifact measured at the sensing electrode during systole, determine a second amplitude of a second electrical artifact measured at the sensing electrode during diastole, and calculate a mechanical index based on the first amplitude and the second amplitude, wherein the mechanical index is representative of the change in the intracardiac distance.