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CIRCULATION-CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 537-542Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.110.957704
Keywords
renal hypertension; renal artery stenosis; renal artery stent; renal pressure gradients
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- Meijer Lavino Foundation for Cardiovascular Research
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Background-In previous studies on the effect of renal stenting on arterial hypertension, patients were selected mainly on the basis of angiographic parameters of the renal artery stenosis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether translesional pressure gradients could identify the patients with renal artery stenosis who might benefit from stenting. Methods and Results-A total of 53 consecutive hypertensive patients with unilateral RAS scheduled for renal artery intervention were recruited. Transstenotic pressure gradients were measured at baseline and during maximal hyperemia, before renal artery stenting. Twenty-four-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements were performed in all patients before and 3 months after the intervention. Average reductions in systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure at follow-up were -20 +/- 30 mm Hg and -2 +/- 12 mm Hg, respectively. At multivariate analysis, dopamine-induced mean gradient was the only independent predictor of the variations of both systolic blood pressure (regression coefficient=-4.03, standard error=1.11; P<0.001) and diastolic blood pressure (regression coefficient=-3.11, standard error=1.20; P=0.009). Patients who showed a decline in systolic blood pressure from the baseline value >20 mm Hg were considered as responders. The optimal cutoff for identification of responders was a dopamine-induced mean gradient >= 20 mm Hg (area under the curve, 0.77; 95% confidence interval, 0.64 to 0.90; P=0.001). Conclusions-A dopamine-induced mean pressure gradient of >= 20 mm Hg is highly predictive of arterial hypertension improvement after renal stenting, and therefore this measurement is useful for appropriate selection of patients with arterial hypertension. (Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2010;3:537-542.)
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