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  • System and method for monitoring myocardial performance using sensed ventricular pressures
    Patent number: 7192399
    Abstract: A medical device chronically monitors cardiac function in a patient. An input circuit of the medical device receives a pressure signal representative of a pressure sensed within a ventricle of the patient's heart as a function of time. A processor derives from the pressure signal a myocardial performance index based upon pressures in the ventricle. The processor then provides an output based upon the myocardial performance index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Barbro M. Kjellstrom, Kathryn E. Hilpisch, Edward Chinchoy