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US 10,376,516 B2Granted
Methods and devices for renal nerve blocking
AssigneeMedtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
InventorsMark Gelfand, Howard R. Levin
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Abstract
Methods for treating a hypertensive human patient are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with one embodiment comprises delivering a neuromodulatory agent to a renal nerve of the patient via an intravascularly positioned drug delivery catheter. The method includes at least partially blocking neural activity along the renal nerve with the neuromodulatory agent, which results in a therapeutically beneficial reduction in blood pressure of the patient.
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A method, comprising:
- delivering a neuromodulatory agent to a renal nerve of a hypertensive human patient via a drug delivery catheter;
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- at least partially blocking neural activity along the renal nerve to and from a kidney of the patient with the neuromodulatory agent,
- wherein at least partially blocking neural activity along the renal nerve results in a therapeutically beneficial reduction in blood pressure of the patient.
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