UK Principal Investigator Professor Melvin Lobo from Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust said: "These results point towards an exciting future for this new technology. If long term safety and efficacy is proven in larger trials which are currently under way, we hope that renal denervation therapy could soon be offered as an alternative to many lifelong medications for hypertension."

The study was funded by ReCor Medical, Inc. which manufactures the Paradise® Renal Denervation System used in the study.

Research paper: 'Six-Month Results of Treatment-Blinded Medication Titration for Hypertension Control Following Randomization to Endovascular Ultrasound Renal Denervation or a Sham Procedure in the RADIANCE-HTN SOLO Trial'. Prof. Michel Azizi, MD, PhD; Prof. Roland E. Schmieder, MD; Prof. Felix Mahfoud, MD; Prof. Michael A. Weber, MD; Joost Daemen, MD, PhD; Prof. Melvin D. Lobo, PhD, FRCP; Andrew SP Sharp, MD; Michael J. Bloch, MD; Jan Basile, MD; Yale Wang, MD; Manish Saxena, MBBS, MSc; Philipp Lurz, MD, PhD; Florian Rader, MD, MSc; Jeremy Sayer, MD, FRCP; Naomi DL Fisher, MD; David Fouassier, MD; Neil C. Barman, MD; Helen Reeve-Stoffer, PhD; Candace McClure, PhD; and Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM; on behalf of the RADIANCE-HTN Investigators. Circulation.


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