Title
Increased arterial stiffness does not respond to renal denervation in an animal model of secondary hypertension
Abstract
Renal denervation is a novel device based therapy promoted to reduce high blood pressure. We examined the impact of renal denervation on systolic blood pressure, renal function, and arterial stiffness in the Lewis Polycystic Kidney disease (LPK) rodent model of kidney disease. Animals were subjected to bilateral renal denervation or sham surgeries at age 6 and 12 weeks. Systolic blood pressure was monitored by tail-cuff plethysmography and renal function by urinalysis and creatinine clearance. At age 16 weeks, beat-to-beat aortic pulse wave velocity as a functional indicator of arterial stiffness was determined. Renal denervation produced an overall reduction in blood pressure in the LPK [(denervated 164±4 vs. sham-operated 180±6 mmHg, n = 6 per group, P=0.003)] and delayed, but did not prevent, the decline in renal function. Aortic pulse wave velocity was markedly elevated in the LPK compared with Lewis and was not altered by renal denervation in the LPK however a reduction was seen in the control Lewis animals. These results support the hypothesis that renal nerves contribute to secondary hypertension in conditions such as kidney disease.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036811
2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Animals,Blood Pressure,Denervation,Hypertension,Kidney,Pulse Wave Analysis,Vascular Stiffness
Renal function,Denervation,Pulse wave velocity,Blood pressure,Renal blood flow,Artificial intelligence,Medicine,Computer vision,Internal medicine,Cardiology,Kidney disease,Arterial stiffness,Secondary hypertension,Endocrinology
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2017
1557-170X
978-1-5090-2810-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
9