Boy, did we have high hopes. Back in late 2010, I reported on this great new premise that would let us treat recalcitrant hypertension relatively easily. Ardian had developed a system that would enervate the renal nerve, which is the primary regulator of blood pressure in the human body (the system is called Symplicity).
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Kidney Week 2013
It’s Kidney Week. OK. It’s kidney 5 days… Starting today and ending on the 10th. A ‘week’ to make all of us more aware of one of our biggest killers- certainly one of our most expensive diseases- that is, often, undetected. Why is that so? Because most subjects (they are not yet patients) exhibit no symptoms, until a crisis has developed.