Patent ID: 8639322

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 delivering myocardial stimulation and delivering neural stimulation from the pulmonary artery to the autonomic neural pathway, the device comprising: a neural stimulation generator to generate the neural stimulation; a cardiac stimulation generator to generate the myocardial stimulation; at least one lead configured to be intravascularly fed into the heart including at least one lead configured to be fed through the right ventricle to deliver the cardiac stimulation from the cardiac stimulation generator through a cardiac stimulation electrode and deliver the neural stimulation from the neural stimulation generator through a neural stimulation electrode, wherein the at least one lead includes a lead configured to be intravascularly fed from the right ventricle through 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 the neural stimulation generator and the lead, including the neural stimulation electrode on the lead, configured to stimulate the autonomic neural pathway by delivering neural stimulation through the neural stimulation electrode in the pulmonary artery to the autonomic neural pathway.