Translation of "Cardiac resynchronization therapy" in German

These so-called coronary sinus electrodes are used primarily for cardiac resynchronization therapy.

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy can improve the survival rates of heart failure patients who respond to this therapy.

A cardiac pacemaker therapy for the heart, which is linked thereto, is referred to as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

Such therapy is also referred to as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

Such combination devices are referred to as cardiac pacemakers for cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillators, in short CRT-D devices.

Such a device may be used, in particular, to perform cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

Such a therapy is also referred to as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

The invention relates to an implantable heart stimulator for the cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) of a heart.

Such combination devices are referred to as cardiac pacemakers for cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator, or CRT-D devices.

According to another preferred embodiment, the heart stimulator is designed to perform a cardiac resynchronization therapy, preferably including AV time optimization.

A preliminary study has previously shown that Cardiac contractility modulation may be safe and effective in such patients who have not responded to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

The MD is particularly preferably an external cardiac pacemaker and/or defibrillator and/or an implantable cardiac pacemaker and/or an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator (ICD) and/or an implantable cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) device and/or a neurostimulator and/or a device for monitoring physiological functions such as, but not limited to, a device for monitoring cardiac function.

Accordingly, the monitoring device can comprise, for example, an implantable first component for varying a stimulation frequency, a component for varying the atrioventricular or interventricular delay time, a component for varying the stimulation mode, or a component for activating and deactivating a cardiac resynchronization therapy.

The state parameter is, for example, a parameter characterizing a state of a medical device already connected to the patient, for example, a stimulation parameter, such as a stimulation frequency, an activity of a cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT on/off), an activity of an antitachycardial stimulation (ATP), an electrode configuration, a pacing mode or a pacing amplitude, a programmed atrioventricular or interventricular delay time, or a stimulation mode.

It is preferred, that the at least partially implantable medical device is an external cardiac pacemaker and/or an external defibrillator or implanted cardiac pacemaker and/or defibrillator/cardioverter and/or a cardiac resynchronization therapy device (CRT), a cardiac support system such as a heart support pump, an artificial heart, a neurostimulator, an implantable monitoring device (patient monitor), an implantable medication pump, an implanted fluid pump and/or an external heart-lung system, and that the control unit of the IMD selects the operating condition of the IMD using the detected electromagnetic interference values and/or the measured values detected by the at least one electrode and/or the reconstructed measured values from predetermined operating conditions.

8 illustrates one possible classification individually prepared for a patient B. This patient B 810 has received a triple-chamber ICD (CRT-D) implant since he has met the criteria for cardiac resynchronization therapy due to pronounced cardiac insufficiency.

The implantable electronic therapy device according to claim 1, wherein the implantable electronic therapy device is an implantable cardioverter/defibrillator, a biventricular cardiac stimulator for resynchronization therapy, and/or an antitachycardiac pacemaker.

Pacemakers of that kind for biventricular stimulation are basically known and are employed in particular for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT).

The goal of such cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is to synchronize the two ventricles of a heart through biventricular stimulation, in order to improve the time behavior of the ventricles and thus the cardiac output.

BERLIN, Germany, July 15, 2014 – BIOTRONIK, a leading manufacturer of cardiovascular medical technology, announced the first implantations worldwide of its new ICD and CRT-D series (implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators).

For example, the monitoring device 100 is thus implemented to change the stimulation frequency of a cardiac pacemaker of the patient or to activate or deactivate a cardiac resynchronization therapy or to manipulate the atrioventricular delay time via the implantable first component 180 .

In one embodiment, the monitoring device according to the invention acquires a value change of a hemodynamic parameter, which occurs as a result of a detected value change of a state parameter, for example, as a result of an activation or deactivation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy.

The implantable cardiac therapy device according to claim 1, further comprising a cardiac stimulator or at least one stimulation unit controlled by the control unit, and which is configured to optionally in combination with the control unit, stimulate both ventricles of the heart to achieve cardiac resynchronization therapy.