Patent ID: 8579955
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. A method of treating cardiac arrhythmias comprising: delivering a treatment device to a target site having a diameter, said treatment device being an implantable stent; manipulating said device to conform a shape of said device to a shape of said target site; overstretching said diameter of said target site into an overstretched state through expansion of said treatment device and thereby securing said device in place at said target site; said overstretching inducing fibrosis in tissue at said target site that results in electrically decoupling said tissue said treatment device substantially maintaining said diameter of said target site in said overstretched state and, leaving said treatment device implanted at said target site; wherein delivering a treatment device to a target site includes delivering said device to an ostium of a pulmonary vein.