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US 2009/0024054 A1Published application
Implantable medical device
OwnerArnaud Lazarus, Marco Albus +3inventors
InventorsArnaud Lazarus, Marco Albus, Sven Bode, Joachim Elsner, Stefanie Kespohl
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Abstract
The invention relates to an implantable medical device which has sensors for recognizing the health status of the bodily tissue surrounding the implantable medical device in a sensor.
Claims15
An implantable medical device (10) comprising:
- a housing (42), which contains a control unit (54);
- a telemetry unit (58) connected to the control unit (54) for wireless signal transmission to an external device;
- and,
- at least one sensor (60;
- 70;
- 78;
- 79;
- 82) connected to the control unit (54), which is implemented to detect a tissue property characteristic for a tissue status of bodily tissue that surrounds the housing (42) after implantation of the implantable medical device (10).
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