Limited destruction of renal nerves after catheter-based renal denervation: Results of a human case study

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1608-1610

  Vink, Eva E ^a   Goldschmeding, Roel ^a   Vink, Aryan ^a   Weggemans, Callista ^b   Bleijs, Ronald L A W ^a   Blankestijn, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Bethesda Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

hypertension; renal denervation; renal nerves

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CARVEDILOL; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; IRBESARTAN; NIFEDIPINE; PROTEIN S 100; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DENERVATION; KIDNEY DENERVATION SYSTEM; KIDNEY NERVE; MACROALBUMINURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; RESISTANT HYPERTENSION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX PAIN;

HYPERTENSION; RENAL DENERVATION; RENAL NERVES;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHETER ABLATION; DENERVATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905049463     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfu192     Document Type: Article

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