Renal denervation for treatment of hypertension – will 2017 be the year of enlightenment?

Hypertension is accompanied by significant adverse cardiovascular outcomes, and intensive blood pressure lowering (<120 mmHg) in patients at risk improves outcomes1. However, although numerous highly effective pharmacological therapies are available to lower blood pressure, control rates remain unacceptably low. A substantial number of patients with hypertension are reluctant or incapable of adhering to lifestyle modification and/or poly pharmacotherapy regimens, especially as the former has a time-delimited impact on blood pressure and the latter requires a lifetime of adherence, which is challenging at best. Non-pharmacological control of blood pressure is appealing, and several interventional approaches have been developed and ...