Patent ID: 9320903
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: A61N

Claim Text:
1. An implantable heart muscle stimulator device for treating a blood pressure disorder in a patient, the patient having a pretreatment systemic blood pressure corresponding to a pretreatment cardiac ejection profile, the device comprising: at least one lead configured to be in electrical communication with a cardiac chamber of the patient's heart; and an electrical stimulator in electrical communication with the at least one lead and comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium programmed to deliver through the at least one lead a stimulation pattern timed relative to the patient's cardiac ejection cycle that alters a pretreatment contraction timing between at least two cardiac chambers, reduces atrioventricular delay in the patient's cardiac election cycle, and causes, between the at least two cardiac chambers, a dyssynchrony that alters the patient's cardiac ejection profile from the pretreatment cardiac ejection profile and reduces the patient's systemic blood pressure from the pretreatment systemic blood pressure.