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AssigneePacesetter, Inc.
InventorsEuljoon Park, Kerry Bradley
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A system and method for use in an implantable cardiac device that delivers electrical therapy to a patient's heart determines if a T wave alternan pattern of the patient's heart exists. The system includes a sensing circuit that generates an electrical signal representing electrical activity of the patient's heart. A morphology detector measures a magnitude of a T wave characteristic of each T wave in the electrical signal of a predetermined number of cardiac cycles of the heart. A discriminator then determines, responsive to the measured T wave characteristic magnitudes, if a T wave alternan pattern exists. A T wave alternan pattern may be determined to exist if the number of measured T wave characteristic magnitudes greater than and less than a T wave characteristic magnitude baseline are substantially equal and each greater than a given number.
In an implantable cardiac device, a system for detecting a T wave alternan pattern of a patient's heart, comprising:
In an implantable cardiac device that delivers electrical therapy to a patient's heart, a system for detecting a T wave alternan pattern of the patient's heart, comprising:
In an implantable cardiac device, a method of detecting a T wave alternan pattern in a patient's heart, the method comprising:
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