Patent Document ID: 9486633
Application ID: 14954740
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of treating myocardial ischemia in a patient by modulating a neural pathway in the sympathetic nervous system, comprising: identifying myocardial ischemia in the patient; positioning at least one electrode on a dorsal root ganglion epinurium in close proximity to the dorsal root ganglion of the patient upstream of at least one ganglion of the sympathetic nerve chain, wherein the dorsal root ganglion is located within T2 to T6 spinal segments; and treating myocardial ischemia in the patient by increasing blood flow in the coronary vascular system through provision of electrical pulses to the at least one electrode so as to directly neuromodulate the dorsal root ganglion in a manner that influences a condition associated with the at least one ganglion of the sympathetic nerve chain while excluding neuromodulation of an associated ventral root.