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Renal sympathetic denervation (RDN) with radiofrequency (RF) is being used to treat resistant hypertension in seven non-responder patients (62±6 years for age, 5F/2M) despite treatment with >4 different antihyper- tensive drugs in optimal doses. Prior to diagnosing a patient as having resistant hypertension, we document adherence and exclude white-coat hypertension, inaccurate measurement of blood pressure and second-ary causes. Office blood pressure (BP) measurements at 1, 3, 6, 12 and 18 months follow-up visits were compared to baseline. We used STATISTICA 10, 2011 software (Stat Soft Inc., Tulsa, OK, USA). Values are mean SD and considered statistically significant if P |
