Heart help method
OwnerPeter Forsellinventor
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Abstract
An implantable heart help method for implantation in a human patient is provided. The device comprising a fixating member adapted to fixate said device to a part of the human body comprising bone. A method of fixating an implantable heart help device in a human patient is provided. The method comprises the steps of: cutting the skin of said human patient, dissecting an area of the body comprising bone, and fixating said implantable heart help device to said part of the body comprising bone.
Claims21
-103. (canceled)
A method of fixating an implantable heart help device in a human patient for improving pump function of the heart of the human patient by applying an external force on a heart muscle, wherein said device comprises at least one heart contacting organ, said method comprising the steps of:
- placing said heart contacting organ onto a first portion of the ventricular area of the heart in a first position,
- placing an operating device in proximity to the heart, adapted to operate said heart contacting organ to periodically exert the external force to the heart contacting organ,
- placing an implantable adjustment system in proximity to the heart, the implantable adjustment system being configured to postoperatively and non-invasively calibrate a position of the heart contacting organ such that the heart contacting organ is moved from the first position to a second position in which the heart contacting organ is placed on a second portion of the ventricular area of the heart, thereby changing the operation of the heart contacting organ from the first position in which the heart contacting organ can periodically exert an external force on the first portion of the ventricular area of the heart to the second position in which the heart contacting organ can periodically exert an external force on the second portion of the ventricular area of the heart, wherein the first portion of the heart and the second portion of the heart are different physical locations on the outside of the heart,
- connecting a source of energy for powering said implantable heart help device, and
- placing a sensor in proximity to the source of energy, the sensor being configured to determine a current state of the source of energy.
The method according to claim 104, wherein the step of placing said operating device comprises placing said operating device in the abdomen of the human patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.