Hypotensive effects of renal denervation in spontaneously hypertensive rat based on ultrasonic contrast imaging.

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Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China. Electronic address:

Published: June 2017

Background: Sympathetic nerves-fire rate is generally enhanced in some types of hypertension models. Renal sympathetic denervation(RSD) by the radiofrequency ablation was used to treat the hypertension has achieved curative effect.HTN-1 and HTN-2 trial reported catheter-based renal denervation may cause substantial and sustained blood-pressure reduction in patients with resistant hypertension. However, recent controlled HTN-3 trial questioned the BP lowering effect of Renal denervation treatment. The controversial results maybe arised from the incompleted RSD which implemented inside the renal artery. Now renal denervation therapy for resistant hypertension is in attractive and controversial status. Our aim is to define the hyotensive value of complete renal denervation in adult spontaneous hypertensive rats.

Methods: Male spontaneous hypertensive rats(SHR) aged 12 weeks were randomly selected for either unilateral renal artery sympathetic nerves ablation (URSNA), or conventional technique of renal denervation (CRD), or bilateral renal artery sympathetic nerves ablation (BRSNA) and sham operation. Blood pressure, sodium and water balance,serum reninangiotensin II and Norepinephrine concentration were measured during 20 weeks after renal denervation operation. Internal diameters of renal arteries and renal blood flow rate was tested by ultrasonic contrast imaging.

Results: The continued increased blood pressure in SHR was delayed and significantly reduced by conventional renal denervation over a period of 8 weeks. Both the bilateral and unilateral renal sympathetic nerve ablation procedure did not prevent the development of hypertension in SHR. The attenuation of hypertension was accompanied with the increase of urinary sodium excretion and depression of rennin angiotensin system (RAS).

Conclusions: We concluded that renal denervation may not be an effective therapeutic method in the long-term control of hypertension in adult SHR.

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