In kidney transplantation, the use of minimally invasive damage biomarkers that are more
sensitive and specific than plasma creatinine will be crucial to enable early, actionable …

Catheter-based radiofrequency ablation technology to disrupt both efferent and afferent
renal nerves has recently been introduced to clinical medicine after the demonstration of …

Background. The introduction of sirolimus as an immunosuppressive drug for renal
transplantation has lead to an increase of unexplained interstitial pneumonitis. Methods. Out of a …

Background Microalbuminuria is an early predictor of diabetic nephropathy and premature
cardiovascular disease. We investigated whether treatment with an angiotensin-receptor …

Background— Hypertension is associated with impaired glucose metabolism and insulin
resistance. Chronic activation of the sympathetic nervous system may contribute to either …

Background Early studies suggest that radiofrequency-based renal denervation reduces blood
pressure in patients with moderate hypertension. We investigated whether an alternative …

Increased renal resistive index and urinary albumin excretion are markers of hypertensive
end-organ damage and renal vasoconstriction involving increased sympathetic activity. …

Background: Arterial hypertension and its organ sequelae show characteristics of T cell–mediated
inflammatory diseases. Experimental anti-inflammatory therapies have been shown to …

Background— Catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation (RDN) reduces office blood
pressure (BP) in patients with resistant hypertension according to office BP. Less is known …

Background Endovascular renal denervation reduces blood pressure in patients with mild-to-moderate
hypertension, but its efficacy in patients with true resistant hypertension has not …