Excerpt: “Renal denervation (RDN) has emerged recently as a promising adjunctive treatment for hypertension… it’s up and down history, mixed clinical evidence, and nuanced indications, however, can make it a blooming, buzzing, confusion for any physician who hasn't watched the year-by-year developments closely. It is for these reasons, we argue in this assessment, that a comprehensive CME program is warranted.”

Excerpt: “In the 1840s, the fabled French physiologist Claude Bernard spent considerable time dissecting animals. Probing and prying, Bernard was trying to understand the inner workings of their nervous systems. One day, upon snipping a rabbit’s sympathetic cervical chain, he noticed something he wasn’t quite expecting: changes in blood vessels …the discovery foreshadowed an intriguing possibility: might the sympathetic nerves one day hold the key to alleviating one of the most ubiquitous diseases afflicting humanity: hypertension?”