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The treatment of severe hypertension by the surgical obliteration of the renal sympathetic nerves was proposed almost 80 years ago. This approach, although highly effective in reducing blood pressure was associated with a significant amount of side effects and it was rapidly replaced by better tolerated medical therapy. The rapid progress in catheter based technologies occurring within the last 20 years...
Denervating the human kidney to improve blood pressure control is an old therapeutic concept first applied on a larger scale by surgeons in the 1920s. With the advent of modern pharmacology and the development of powerful drugs to lower blood pressure, approaches to directly target the sympathetic nerves were more or less abandoned. Over the past 2–3 years, however, we have witnessed enormous renewed...
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