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  • Cardiovascular medicine
  • Nephrology
  • Interventional cardiology

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  • Renal sympathetic nerve ablation is a promising antihypertensive therapy.
  • Assessing the effectiveness of renal denervation is challenging due to compensatory blood flow mechanisms.
  • A novel method is needed to confirm successful nerve ablation during procedures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate renal sympathetic vasomotion as a real-time indicator of successful catheter-based renal denervation.
  • To evaluate the impact of successive radiofrequency ablation rounds on renal vasomotion.
  • To establish renal vasomotion as a reliable endpoint for interventionalists.

Main Methods:

  • Ten pigs underwent unilateral surgical renal denervation followed by sequential catheter-based radiofrequency renal denervation of the contralateral kidney.
  • Renal blood flow velocity and aortic pressure were measured to assess renal vasomotion before and after ablations.
  • Statistical analysis compared vasomotion profiles between denervated and control kidneys.

Main Results:

  • Pre-ablation, distinct renal vasomotion patterns were observed between innervated and surgically denervated kidneys.
  • Ablation of major renal arteries significantly reduced renal sympathetic vasomotion (52-95%).
  • Further ablations did not consistently decrease vasomotion, suggesting a procedural limit.

Conclusions:

  • Renal sympathetic vasomotion effectively reflects the degree of renal sympathetic nerve denervation.
  • This marker offers intraprocedural feedback, potentially enhancing the efficacy and safety of renal denervation therapies.
  • Renal vasomotion could standardize and improve this interventional treatment for hypertension.