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<p>Hypertension is still the cause of many cardiovascular complications and the premature death of a large number of patients despite the use of increasingly effective pharmacological drugs. Most patients with therapy-resistant hypertension show excessive activity of the sympathetic system. In the last two decades, there have been successful attempts at nonpharmacological reduction of this activity. The earliest method for this purpose is the denervation of the renal arteries by using devices specially designed for this purpose. Other methods of lowering blood pressure are the electrical activation of baroreceptors, which increases the tone of the parasympathetic system, and special pacemaker software to lower blood pressure. The paper discusses the studies assessing the effectiveness and safety of these methods, and on the basis of the current research results, predictions are made concerning which patients with arterial hypertension would be the most appropriate for these treatment methods.</p>
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Hypertension is still the cause of many cardiovascular complications and the premature death of a large number of patients despite the use of increasingly effective pharmacological drugs. Most patients with therapy-resistant hypertension show excessive activity of the sympathetic system. In the last two decades, there have been successful attempts at nonpharmacological reduction of this activity. The earliest method for this purpose is the denervation of the renal arteries by using devices specially designed for this purpose. Other methods of lowering blood pressure are the electrical activation of baroreceptors, which increases the tone of the parasympathetic system, and special pacemaker software to lower blood pressure. The paper discusses the studies assessing the effectiveness and safety of these methods, and on the basis of the current research results, predictions are made concerning which patients with arterial hypertension would be the most appropriate for these treatment methods.

Devices for the treatment of arterial hypertension

Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej

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Hypertension is still the cause of many cardiovascular complications and the premature death of a large number of patients despite the use of increasingly...

Devices for the treatment of arterial hypertension

Article Category: Review

Published Online: May 06, 2023

Page range: 27 - 35

Received: Mar 25, 2022

Accepted: Nov 18, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ahem-2023-0004

Keywords
hypertension, renal denervation, baroreflex activation therapy, pacemaker-mediated programmable hypertension control therapy

© 2023 Jerzy Głuszek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Devices for the treatment of arterial hypertension

Article Category: Review

Published Online: May 06, 2023

Page range: 27 - 35

Received: Mar 25, 2022

Accepted: Nov 18, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ahem-2023-0004

Keywordshypertension, renal denervation, baroreflex activation therapy, pacemaker-mediated programmable hypertension control therapy

© 2023 Jerzy Głuszek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
hypertension, renal denervation, baroreflex activation therapy, pacemaker-mediated programmable hypertension control therapy