Renal artery stenosis is a disease where the arteries responsible for transporting blood to one or both of the kidneys become ...

Keeping blood pressure under control is critical. For patients who have been unable to successfully maintain that control, there is a new, cutting-edge surgical procedure available at The Heart Center ...

Medtronic's next-gen renal denervation catheter and procedure are in the works to advance the FDA-approved Symplicity Spyral ...

It’s not a cure – and some patients get no benefit. But Garasic said multiple studies show on average an 8 to 10-point drop in blood pressure, a modest but important improvement. Some like Garrity see ...

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A catheter would be inserted through the groin and guided to the renal arteries after which the catheter would provide RF energy to the renal arteries, in effect severing the nerve signals between ...

Those pulses pass through the renal arteries to selectively target surrounding nerves, as the entire procedure is super quick and takes only an hour to complete. Even though it is already in use ...

Mount Carmel’s heart and vascular teams have debuted several new, highly advanced surgical procedures in Central Ohio.

The hospital's state-of-the-art American Heart and Vascular Institute performed a challenging surgery including open ...

Those pulses pass through the renal arteries to selectively target surrounding nerves, said Dr. Joseph Garasic, a Mass General interventional cardiologist who performed Garrity’s procedure.