2 results about "Cardiac pressures" patented technology

Methods for reducing cardiac pressure involve advancing a surgical instrument into a left atrium of a heart and into a pulmonary vein fluidly coupled to the left atrium. A first opening is formed in a wall portion of the pulmonary vein and a second opening is formed in a wall portion of a pulmonary artery. A shunt implant is deployed through the first and second openings such that the shunt implant extends between the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery and defines a shunt flow path therebetween. Blood is shunted from the pulmonary vein into the pulmonary artery through the shunt flow path. In some implementations, the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are drawn toward one another prior to deployment of the shunt implant, and the shunt implant clamps tissue of the pulmonary vein and tissue of the pulmonary artery together to establish a fluid-tight shunt pathway.

Described herein are systems and methods for synchronizing electrical activity monitored by a plurality of external electrodes with supplemental cardiac data for assessing a patient's cardiac condition and configuring cardiac therapy. The supplemental cardiac data can include one or more markers indicative of a cardiac event occurrence and / or representative of at least one of a cardiac electrical signal, a heart sound, a cardiac pressure, a blood flow, and an estimated instantaneous flow waveform provided by a left ventricular assist device.