Treatment of kidney against hypertension

• April 27, 2024

A study published in the magazine The Lancet ensures that a short wave discharge Radiation in the kidneys could help control hypertension in patients who do not respond to medication.

The discharge blocks the nerves in the kidneys to reduce blood pressure . It uses the so-called energy of radiofrequency , or RF, to selectively cut the nerves of the kidneys that play a key role in regulating blood pressure.

To get to the kidneys, doctors insert a catheter into an artery in the groin that is guided to the kidney. Once in the proper position the catheter is connected to a radiofrequency machine.

Hypertension is a serious public health problem and is thought to affect one billion people Worldwide. Half of the affected patients do not manage to regulate the pressure with medication since many of them forget to take the drug on a daily basis, and in 20% of those diagnosed with hypertension, simply the medicines have no effect.

The team of researchers, led by the professor Murray Esler of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia, is currently testing the safety and effectiveness of the therapy.

The Australian team, which works in 24 clinics located in several countries around the world, tested the treatment in clinical trials involving more than 100 patients.

The therapy has been able to reduce blood pressure in some patients by about 10mmHg (millimeter of mercury) or more, which means that this technique can reduce some of the health risks associated with very high blood pressure.

So far there has been no secondary effect.

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