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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6889093 | Electrode lead with multiple branches An electrode arrangement, in particular for the intracardial discharge of defibrillation pulses in the atrium of a heart, comprising an electrode line which in the region of its distal end has a plurality of electrically conductive surface portions as electrodes whi... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6574509 | Apparatus for the transmission of data in particular from an electromedical implant Apparatus for the transmission of at least first data from an electronic device (1; 1'), in particular an electromedical implant such as a cardiac pacemaker, to a monitoring arrangement (38), including at least a first interface device (6; 6'), with at le... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6512957 | Catheter having a guide sleeve for displacing a pre-bent guidewire A catheter for the introduction into blood vessels having a lumen and guide means arranged therein wherein the guide means include a pre-bent wire (26) displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the catheter (10) and the catheter (10) has at its distal... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6463325 | Self-calibrating rate-adaptive cardiac pacemaker A self-calibrating rate-adaptive cardiac pacemaker is provided. The pacemaker comprising a first measuring and processing device for detecting a first, predominantly sympathetically influenced physiological parameter and for obtaining a rate control param... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6345199 | Implant cardioverter, especially defibrillator An implantable cardioverter, especially defibrillator, having a morphology detector (3) to measure and evaluate EKG signals for the purpose of discriminating between different tachycardia conditions of the heart. The morphology detector (3) having a signa... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6341234 | Tripolar stimulation of heart chambers Tripolar stimulation of the heart utilizes electrodes implanted in at least two locations in the heart. In a first case, for bi-atrial or bi-ventricular stimulation, electrodes are placed in an appropriate heart chamber and in a blood vessel of the heart.... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6312456 | Biocompatible stent with radiopaque markers A stent, in particular a coronary stent, includes a thin-walled, hollow-cylindrical base body of an X-ray transparent material, the surface area of which has an open-worded, net-shaped design owing to recesses. The stent has at least one X-ray opaque elem... | 11/06/2001 |
| 5978700 | Recognizing ventricular tachycardia condition using dual chamber sense information An apparatus for detecting ventricular tachycardia includes a first and snd calculation unit, each having an input side connected to a ventricle sensor and an atrium sensor, respectively, and to a timer, for calculating the R--R and P--P intervals betwee... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5300092 | Rest/activity phase-responsive rate controlled cardiac pacer A rate controlled cardiac pacemaker stimulates the heart of a patient at a stimulation rate and includes a stress sensor for sensing actual physical stress of the patient. The device includes control logic for adapting the stimulation rate of the pacemake... | 04/05/1994 |
| 4290429 | Battery monitoring circuit in a cardiac pacemaker In a monitoring circuit for monitoring the state of the battery of a card pacemaker, which pacemaker includes an energy storage element normally connected to be charged by the battery and to constitute an energy source for the pacemaker components, the c... | 09/22/1981 |
