Methods for catheter-based renal neuromodulation
US10194979B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 13, 2015 |
| Grant date | Feb 5, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 26, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61N2007/003
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Methods for treating preventing or decreasing the likelihood of a human patient developing hypertension and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed to methods for therapeutic renal neuromodulation that partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in renal nerves proximate a renal blood vessel of a human patient. This reduction in sympathetic neural activity is expected to therapeutically treat one or more conditions associated with hypertension or prehypertension of the patient. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a neuromodulation assembly, e.g., a neuromodulation assembly configured to use electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the renal nerves.
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