A minimally invasive procedure called renal denervation, which disrupts overactive nerves in the kidneys, is showing promise in controlling high blood pressure. Patients like Michael Garrity, who struggled with dangerously high blood pressure despite taking multiple medications, are experiencing significant blood pressure reductions and are able to gradually reduce their medication doses. Doctors are cautiously offering this treatment to carefully selected patients, while working out insurance coverage and long-term effects.
WASHINGTON—Nothing doctors prescribed controlled Michael Garrity’s dangerously high blood pressure—until they zapped away some nerves on his kidneys.
About half of US adults have high blood pressure, a major risk for heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, even dementia. Many people don’t even realize they have hypertension until it’s done serious damage. Now, after the American Heart Association recently deemed it promising, some hospitals including Mass General Brigham are cautiously offering it as they work out who are good candidates—and whether their insurance will cover a minimally invasive procedure costing thousands of dollars.TWO numbers describe blood pressure. The top, “systolic” pressure, is the force blood puts on the walls of arteries as its pumped out of the heart.
Medicine is a must once hypertension reaches 140 over 90. The average patient requires two or three drugs, sometimes more, along with healthier living, Zusman said.Despite taking four to six drugs plus a strict diet and exercise, his blood pressure regularly reached 150 over 100 or worse.Doctors thread a small catheter, or tube, through blood vessels to reach the kidneys, and then beam in ultrasound or radiofrequency energy.
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