The hospital's state-of-the-art American Heart and Vascular Institute performed a challenging surgery including open ...

Medtronic's next-gen renal denervation catheter and procedure are in the works to advance the FDA-approved Symplicity Spyral ...

"Renal-dose" dopamine is widely used in clinical ... to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy in patients undergoing arteriography. There appears to be no benefit in the use of dopamine in this ...

A minimally invasive procedure used to treat resistant hypertension or high blood pressure that does not respond to other medications, renal denervation disrupts the nerves in the renal arteries, ...

Nothing doctors prescribed controlled Michael Garrity’s dangerously high blood pressure — until they zapped away some nerves ...

When there was any indication of possible renovascular disease (abdominal bruit, suggestive history or positive radioisotope renogram) this was excluded by renal arteriography. All the ...

The Medtronic Symplicty Spyral renal denervation ablation catheter expands inside the renal arteries. It ablates nerves in the vessel wall to treat hypertension. [Illustration courtesy of ...

A catheter would be inserted through the groin and guided to the renal arteries after which the catheter would provide RF energy to the renal arteries, in effect severing the nerve signals between ...

A patient with diabetic foot infection (DFI) spends 50 per cent of his annual income on treatment, and every year 20,0000 ...

WASHINGTON—Nothing doctors prescribed controlled Michael Garrity’s dangerously high blood pressure—until they zapped away some nerves on his kidneys. If that sounds weird, well, kidneys help regulate ...

Michael Privitera’s family has been on the hunt for a living kidney donor with no success. But they’re not giving up hope.

Atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease (ASCVD)-related mortality is higher in patients with lupus nephritis (LN) compared ...