TUPELO — High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the top preventable cause of strokes and heart attacks in the United States, according to Dr. Barry Bertolet, an interventional cardiologist at the ...

ATLANTA - At 69, Paul Griffin of Newnan has been living with high blood pressure for about 25 years. Diagnosed in his early 40s, Griffin's doctor put him on a drug that, he says, caused some negative ...

GREENBRAE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MarinHealth interventional cardiologists treated the first patient with a revolutionary new renal denervation (RDN) procedure, now offered for patients with poorly ...

Cardiologists are welcoming the arrival of a new device-based hypertension treatment called renal denervation and asking Medicare to cover the procedure for a large patient population. Doctors, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Data show renal denervation safely lowers BP, but some question the durability of effect. Experts continue to ...

BOROUGH PARK — AN INNOVATIVE PROCEDURE TO CALM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND KIDNEYS was launched at Maimonides Medical Center this week. Maimonides has become the first hospital in Brooklyn to offer the ...

The minimally invasive procedure targets nerves near the kidneys to help control high blood pressure when medications fail to do so. Dr. Samin Sharma, an interventional cardiologist and director of ...

National coverage analysis is the first-of-its kind for a minimally invasive, interventional treatment for high blood pressure Milestone is supported by large public health need and robust, long-term ...

I am Eve and I am naked and ashamed. I have eaten the fruit of the tree of renal denervation and I now forage fig leaves to hide my embarrassment. How long I've managed hypertension while ...

Renal denervation safely and effectively lowers blood pressure, but it is not for all patients with hypertension and should not be performed in every cath lab, according to guidance from the European ...

LOS ANGELES — Six month follow-up results of the EnligHTN I first-in-human multicenter trial of St Jude Medical's multielectrode renal-denervation catheter confirm the earlier promising results of the ...