Title :
Bionic cardiovascular medicine
Author :
Sugimachi, Masaru ; Sunagawa, Kenji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Cardiovascular Dynamics, Nat. Cardiovascular Center Res. Inst., Osaka, Japan
Abstract :
A novel, bionic therapeutic strategy to treat various incurable cardiovascular diseases was developed. The bionic therapeutic strategy comprises a collection of methods to treat various diseases by replacing the native regulatory function or by correcting the abnormal native function with intelligent electronic devices. This paper presents the study on decoding the heart rate from the sympathetic nervous system, encoding pressor information and delivering it via nervous stimulation sequence, and improving the survival of animals with chronic heart failure by the correction of the abnormal cardiovascular regulatory function.
Keywords :
biocybernetics; biomedical equipment; blood pressure measurement; cardiovascular system; decoding; diseases; encoding; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; patient treatment; abnormal cardiovascular regulatory function; abnormal native function; animal survival; bionic cardiovascular medicine; bionic therapeutic strategy; chronic heart failure; decoding the heart rate; encoding pressor information; incurable cardiovascular diseases; intelligent electronic devices; native regulatory function; nervous stimulation sequence; sympathetic nervous system; Animals; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Cardiovascular diseases; Decoding; Encoding; Heart rate; Medical treatment; Pacemakers; Sympathetic nervous system; Biomimetics; Bionics; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Equipment Design; Hemostasis; Humans; Therapy, Computer-Assisted;
Journal_Title :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MEMB.2005.1463392
