What the interventionalist should know about renal denervation in hypertensive patients: A position paper by the ESH WG on the interventional treatment of hypertension

EuroIntervention

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1027-1035

  Tsioufis, Costas ^a   Mahfoud, Felix ^b   Mancia, Giuseppe ^c   Redon, Josep ^d   Damascelli, Bruno ^e,f   Zeller, Thomas ^g   Schmieder, Roland E ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^e EMO GVM Columbus Hospital   (Italy)

^f Ospedale di Alzano Lombardo   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation devices; Renal denervation; Resistant hypertension

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIURETIC AGENT; FENTANYL; GADOLINIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; METFORMIN; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABLATION CATHETER; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY ANGIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY DENERVATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NERVE REGENERATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION DEVICE; RENAL ARTERY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VISCERAL PAIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; DENERVATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; RENAL ARTERY;

EID: 84893411757     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV9I9A175     Document Type: Article

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