Patent ID: 8195289

Claim:
An implantable medical device for implantation in a patient having an autonomic neural pathway, a pulmonary artery, a pulmonary artery valve, and a heart including a right ventricle, and for pacing the heart and for delivering neural stimulation from the pulmonary artery to the autonomic neural pathway, the device comprising: a neural stimulation generator to generate a neural stimulation signal; a cardiac stimulation generator to generate a cardiac pacing signal; a lead configured to be electrically connected to the neural stimulation generator and the cardiac stimulation generator, wherein the lead includes a neural stimulation electrode and a cardiac pacing electrode, wherein the lead is configured to be intravascularly fed into the heart through the right ventricle and the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary artery to operationally position the neural stimulation electrode in the pulmonary artery proximate to the autonomic neural pathway for use in delivering neural stimulation to stimulate the autonomic neural pathway, and to operationally position the cardiac stimulation electrode for use in delivering the cardiac pacing signal to capture the heart; and a controller connected to the neural stimulation generator to control the neural stimulation signal and connected to the cardiac stimulation generator to control the cardiac pacing signal.