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Hypercoagulability and the Management of Anticoagulant Therapy in Surgical Patients: Review and Recommendations
Central Blood Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity Changes Post Renal Denervation in Patients With Stages 3 and 4 Chronic Kidney Disease: The Regina RDN Study
Ultrasound Based Computational Fluid Dynamics Assessment of Brachial Artery Wall Shear Stress in Preeclamptic Pregnancy
Flow-mediated vasodilatation of the brachial artery in children with chronic kidney disease
Assessing Medical Students’ Communication Skills by the Use of Standardized Patients: Emphasizing Standardized Patients’ Quality Assurance
Updated ESH position paper on interventional therapy of resistant hypertension.
Out of the overall hypertensive population it is estimated that approximately 10% have treatment resistant hypertension (TRH). Percutaneous catheter-based transluminal renal ablation (renal denervation [RDN] by delivery of radiofrequency energy) has emerged as a new approach to achieve sustained blood pressure reduction in patients with TRH. This innovative interventional technique is now available across Europe for severe TRH for those patients in whom pharmacologic strategies and lifestyle changes have failed to control blood pressure below target (usually <140/90 mmHg). In 2012, the "ESH position paper: renal denervation - an interventional therapy of resistant hypertension" was published to facilitate a better understanding of the effectiveness, safety, limitation and unresolved issues. We have now updated this position paper since numerous studies have been published over the last year providing more data about the rationale, therapeutic efficacy and safety of RDN. In the upcoming ESH/ESC guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension, therapeutic options of treatment resistant hypertension will be addressed, but only briefly, and thus it is the focus of this paper to provide detailed and updated information on this innovative interventional technique.Journal ArticleSCOPUS: re.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe