A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Renal sympathetic denervation in treating drug-resistant hypertension in a patient on hemodialysis




AuthorsPietila-Effati PM, Salmela AK, Niemi RT, Ylitalo AS, Koistinen MJ

PublisherLIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS

Publication year2016

JournalJournal of Hypertension

Journal name in sourceJOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Journal acronymJ HYPERTENS

Volume34

Issue2

First page 368

Last page370

Number of pages3

ISSN0263-6352

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000000802


Abstract

A 26-year-old man had an end-stage renal disease because of a neurogenic urinary bladder with a vesicourinary reflux. The first kidney transplant was lost in consequence of chronic allograft nephropathy. Immunosuppressive medication was withdrawn and transplantectomy was performed in November 2010. After transplantectomy, his blood pressure (BP) slowly increased up to 200/100mmHg. Antihypertensive medication was intensified and a fluid overload was excluded with body composition bioimpedance measurements. Forty-eight-hour ambulatory BP was 180/109mmHg in the daytime and 178/108mmHg in the night-time. Bilateral renal denervation (RDN) was performed with a single electrode Symplicity catheter on May 2013. The effect of RDN became evident at the 6 months visit, and all the antihypertensive medicines were withdrawn at 12 months. Fifteen months after RDN, 48-h ambulatory BP was 120/63mmHg in the daytime and 108/60mmHg in the night-time. The patient was without antihypertensive medication until retransplantation in May 2015.




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