Ardian’s Device Zaps Kidney Nerves to Reduce Blood Pressure
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Ardian Inc., the closely held company developing hypertension therapies, reduced high blood pressure with its device that used radio waves to destroy nerves near the kidney, a novel therapy effective in patients who didn’t respond well to other treatments.
In a study of 106 patients with high blood pressure, those who got the nerve-destroying procedure had their systolic blood pressure drop to an average of 146/84 from a baseline of 178/96, the researchers reported today at the American Heart Association meeting in Chicago. The study also was published today in the Lancet medical journal.