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CompletedNCT01459900

Renal Sympathectomy in Treatment Resistant Essential Hypertension, a Sham Controlled Randomized Trial

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
69 (actual)
Sponsor
Aarhus University Hospital Skejby · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
30 Years – 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this double blind, randomized and sham controlled study is to determine whether renal denervation in terms of catheter based ablation in the renal arteries is effective in lowering blood pressure in patients with treatment resistant hypertension. The blood pressure lowering effect will be evaluated by 24 hours ambulatory blood pressure measurement at baseline and after 1, 3 and 6 months of follow up. Secondary end point evaluation concerns hemodynamic measures using echocardiography, applanation tonometry and forearm plethysmography.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDURERenal artery ablationCatheter based renal denervation by applying low power radiofrequency to the renal artery using the Ardian Medtronic Simplicity Catheter, introduced by femoral artery access.
PROCEDURERenal angiographyRenal angiography by femoral access.

Timeline

Start date
2011-09-01
Primary completion
2015-02-01
Completion
2015-02-01
First posted
2011-10-26
Last updated
2016-09-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01459900. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.