Hypertension

This page includes news and new technology on hypertension. The condition is caused by abnormally high blood pressure that causes excess force and pressure of the blood against the artery walls. Long-term, this can cause damage the vessels and contributes to heart disease. Therapies include antihypertensive medications such as diurestics  and renal denervation therapy. 

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August 2, 2013 — Mercator MedSystems has been issued U.S. Patent 8,465,752, which protects the company’s sole U.S ...

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MEDTRONIC, symplicity renal denervation catheter
Feature | Dave Fornell

One of the exciting new frontiers for interventional cardiology is the use of renal denervation therapy to treat ...

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FDA US device innovation
Feature | Anita Asgar, M.D., FSCAI

The field of interventional cardiology is one of constant change and innovation. The past 10 years have documented ...

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June 13, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to begin the EnligHTN ...

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June 6, 2013 — Boston Scientific Corporation reported interim data from the REDUCE-HTN clinical program, which ...

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June 3, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced that the company’s EnligHTN multi-electrode renal denervation system ...

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May 30, 2013 — Kona Medical announced three and six month results from the WAVE I study, a first-in-man study evaluating ...

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May 17, 2013 — Can high blood pressure be safely reduced and controlled by “disconnecting” nerves in the kidneys? That ...

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May 17, 2013 — Prof. Dr. Béla Merkely and Dr. Péter Sótonyi at Semmelweis Egyetem Kardiológiai Központ in Hungary ...

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April 24, 2013 — Cardiosonic Inc. announced the completion of the first phase of patient enrollment in its first-in-man ...

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April 12, 2013 — A research study of more than 600 black patients with uncontrolled hypertension found that less than ...

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April 1, 2013 — Rox Medical announced enrollment of the first U.K. patients in the CONTROL-HTN international randomized ...

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March 12, 2013 — Using a telemedicine system to engage people in underserved, urban communities to measure and report ...

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Symplicity Renal Denervation System Medtronic Inc. Parallel Review Program
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March 12, 2013 — Medtronic Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and ...

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March 4, 2013 — Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and Yale University have discovered that a specialized ...

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