Resistant arterial hypertension and treatment methods

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the most common diseases in the general population. Despite the new generation of antihypertensive drugs and improved guidelines, there is still a poor number of patients with well-controlled hypertension. The particular group is patients with resistant hypertension. It is highly prevalent in the general hypertensive population and good control of those patients remains a great challenge. Renal sympathetic hyperactivity is a response mechanism of resistant hypertension. One of the options for those patients is transcatheter renal sympathetic denervation. Recent studies show promising results and it has become a possible therapeutic alternative to treat this group of patients.