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Finding A Future For Renal Denervation With Better Controlled Trials

Minimizing the variability in patient attributes and procedural techniques will be crucial to future renal denervation trials having a chance at success, experts suggested last month at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference in Washington, D.C.

Future trials of renal denervation for treatment of uncontrolled hypertension must minimize the variability of patient characteristics and procedural techniques in order to determine if the therapy really works or not, experts at the recent Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference in Washington, D.C. agreed.

"Until we can control the variability of these things, it will be very difficult to truly test the hypothesis of...

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