Patent ID: 7764995

Claim:
A system configured to treat a heart having a myocardial infarct region, the system comprising: one or more agents modulating myocardial tissue growth; an implantable agent delivery device containing the one or more agents and adapted to release the one or more agents to a cardiac region including at least portions of the myocardial infarct region; and an implantable cardiac rhythm management (CRM) device including: a pacing circuit to deliver pacing pulses to the cardiac region; a pacing controller adapted to control the delivery of the pacing pulses to enhance the modulation of myocardial tissue growth by the one or more agents, wherein the pacing controller comprises a pacing algorithm execution module programmed to execute a remodeling control therapy (RCT) pacing algorithm; a remodeling sensor adapted to sense a signal indicative of a size of the myocardial infarct region; and an agent delivery controller adapted to produce an agent delivery control signal using the sensed signal indicative of the size of the myocardial infarct region, wherein the implantable agent delivery device is adapted to release the one or more agents according to the agent delivery control signal.