Abstract
Renal denervation: are we at a crossroads?
Highlights
Prochnau and colleagues used a standard radiofrequency ablation catheter in their study in the current issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal [4]
Several important issues were identified such as the small number of patients with resistant hypertension being found to be eligible for renal denervation (RDN) [3]
It must be stated that bias was introduced by excluding 10 patients who did not respond to the treatment and were referred for alternative RDN techniques
Summary
Prochnau and colleagues used a standard radiofrequency ablation catheter in their study in the current issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal [4]. Several important issues were identified such as the small number of patients with resistant hypertension being found to be eligible for RDN [3]. Blood pressure responses to RDN using the commercially available catheters were found highly variable, with a considerable number of non-responders.
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