Patent ID: 6974456

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising a treatment device including at least one of a mapping electrode or a treatment electrode, the treatment device being sized and configured for introduction into at least a portion of a tissue region comprising at least one of a sphincter, a lower esophageal sphincter, a stomach, a cardia or a fundus; means for stimulating the tissue region to produce a transient relaxation of at least a portion of one of the sphincter, the lower esophageal sphincter, the stomach, the cardia or the fundus; means coupled to the treatment device for identifying a portion of one of the sphincter, the lower esophageal sphincter, the stomach, the cardia or the fundus causing the transient relaxation; and means coupled to the treatment device for delivering energy from the the mapping electrod or the treatment electrode to treat the portion of one the sphincter, the lower esophageal sphincter, the stomach, the cardia or the fundus causing the transient relaxation.