Renal intervention to treat hypertension

Curr Cardiol Rep. 2012 Apr;14(2):142-9. doi: 10.1007/s11886-011-0243-9.

Abstract

Renal artery intervention to treat hypertension is one of the frontiers of ongoing research in combating this epidemic. This article focuses on recent data regarding PTRS and catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation. Despite progress in this field large multicenter, randomized trials that compare these treatment modalities with medical therapy for hypertension are lacking.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Blood Pressure* / drug effects
  • Catheter Ablation / methods*
  • Female
  • Glomerular Filtration Rate
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / drug therapy
  • Hypertension / physiopathology
  • Hypertension / surgery*
  • Kidney / innervation
  • Kidney / physiopathology
  • Kidney / surgery*
  • Male
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / physiopathology
  • Renal Artery Obstruction / surgery*
  • Sex Distribution
  • Stents
  • Sympathectomy / methods*

Substances

  • Antihypertensive Agents