Ethnicity and sympathetic tone: predictors of the blood-pressure response to renal denervation?
- Authors: Wang, Yutang
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Letter
- Relation: Nature Reviews Cardiology Vol. 11, no. 638 (2014), p.
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1062671
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What is the true incidence of renal artery stenosis after sympathetic denervation?
- Authors: Wang, Yutang
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Letter
- Relation: Frontiers in Integrative Physiology Vol. 5, no. 311 (2014).
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1062671
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Is isolated systolic hypertension an indication for renal denervation?
- Authors: Wang, Yutang
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Commentary
- Relation: Frontiers in Physiology Vol. 5, no. 505 (2014), p. 1-2
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1062671
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- Description: Ewen et al. recently reported in the journal Hypertension that they investigated, for the first time, the effect of renal denerva tion on blood pressure in 63 patients with isolated systolic hypertension (Ewen et al., 2014). The authors concluded that renal denervation reduced office and ambula- tory blood pressure in patients with iso- lated systolic hypertension (Ewen et al., 2014). However, this conclusion may not be drawn, as renal denervation may not decrease ambulatory blood pressure in these patients. The potential risk of renal denervation may overweigh its benefit in patients with isolated systolic hypertension. Therefore, adjusted drug treatment may be recommended to these patients before renal denervation.