New York: Sometimes high blood pressure is not controlled with medication. Now, thanks to ultrasound, there has been significant success in treating this type of blood pressure.
Specialists from the Vaglos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University put ultrasound waves on the nerves near the kidneys to lower their blood pressure. It should be noted that these patients had used all the medicines and were taking them together but they were not recovering.
This process is called renal denuclearization, after which the blood pressure of the day dropped by 8 points in two months, while those who took the fake drug showed a decrease of only 3%. Ultrasound showed an 8.3-point drop in blood pressure at night, compared to only 1.8 points for those taking fake medications.
Experts insist that maintaining an 8-point reduction in blood pressure over a long period of time can greatly reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack. Thus ultrasound treatment can be very effective. The medical investigation has been dubbed the Radiance HTN Trio, details of which were presented at a May 16 conference at the American College of Cardiology.
Although it is still an experimental treatment that has not been approved by the FDA. However, it is being offered as a medical trial in various hospitals. All patients will now be screened for the next five years. Worldwide, 66% of people manage to control their blood pressure with medication, while one-third do not have the effects of the medication or are caught in a harmful side effect.
It should be noted that the kidneys play an extraordinary role in controlling blood pressure. The kidneys add water to the blood, the deficiency of which causes a rise and fall in high blood pressure. Ultrasound can now activate the kidney and change its signal. In this process, an ultrasound system is transmitted to the kidneys through a wire in the renal artery.
Scientists claim that the method of renal degeneration can be more useful than any other type of medicine.
