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St. Jude Halts U.S. Renal Denervation Trial, Citing Slow Patient Enrollment

Patient-recruitment challenges have led St. Jude to halt a U.S. clinical trial of its EnligHTN renal denervation system. The company says it is working with FDA to design a new trial.

St. Jude Medical Inc.is working with FDA to design a new U.S. pivotal trial of its EnligHTN multielectrode renal denervation system for patients with drug-resistant high blood pressure after patient-enrollment problems led it to discontinue the sham-controlled EnligHTN IV

trial.

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