Treatment of renal hypertension or carotid sinus syndrome with heated fluid sympathetic denervation or neuromodulation

• US 9,011,879 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2013
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mercator MedSystems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Mercator MedSystems, Inc.
• Inventors: Seward, Kirk Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Minnifield, Nita M
• Application Number:
  US13/895,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20130287698A1
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 424/247.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2300/00 Mixtures or combinations of active ingredients, wherein at least one active ingredient is fully defined in groups A61K31/00 - A61K41/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/155 Amidines (), e.g. guanidine (H2N—C(=NH)—NH2), isourea (N=C(OH)—NH2), isothiourea (—N=C(SH)—NH2)
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/395 having nitrogen as a ring hetero atom, e.g. guanethidine or rifamycins
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 45/06 Mixtures of active ingredients without chemical characterisation, e.g. antiphlogistics and cardiaca
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/0019 Injectable compositions; Intramuscular, intravenous, arterial, subcutaneous administration; Compositions to be administered through the skin in an invasive manner non-active ingredients are additionally classified in A61K47/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/009 the needle having a bent tip, i.e. the needle distal tip is angled in relation to the longitudinal axis of the catheter
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• CPC Class Codes: A61P 9/00 Drugs for disorders of the cardiovascular system
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 9/12 Antihypertensives

Abstract

Sympathetic nerves run through the adventitia surrounding renal arteries and are critical in the modulation of systemic hypertension. Hyperactivity of these nerves can cause renal hypertension, a disease prevalent in 30-40% of the adult population. Hypertension can be treated with neuromodulating agents (such as angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II inhibitors, or aldosterone receptor blockers), but requires adherence to strict medication regimens and often does not reach target blood pressure threshold to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events. A minimally invasive solution is presented here to reduce the activity of the sympathetic nerves surrounding the renal artery by locally delivering neurotoxic or nerve-blocking agents into the adventitia. Extended elution of these agents may also be accomplished in order to tailor the therapy to the patient.

Claims

1. A method for treating hypertension, said method comprising the delivery of a therapeutically effective amount of heated fluid into the perivascular tissue surrounding the renal artery, wherein the amount is effective to lower systemic blood pressure by a therapeutically beneficial amount, wherein delivery comprises injecting said heated fluid into tissue bound on the inside by the external elastic lamina of said renal artery and bound on the outside by the outer extent of the adventitial and perivascular connective tissues that surround the renal artery.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein delivery includes a step of positioning a needle through the wall of the renal artery so that an aperture of the needle is positioned beyond an external elastic lamina (EEL) of the wall.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein delivery further includes a step of confirming that said heated fluid is penetrating said tissue by imaging either the heated fluid mixed with a diagnostic agent or by the delivery of a diagnostic agent prior to the delivery of the heated fluid.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the heated fluid is effective in heating a nerve of the tissue from 42 C to 50 C.

5. A method for treating hypertension, said method comprising the delivery of a therapeutically effective amount of heated fluid into the perivascular tissue surrounding a blood vessel, wherein the amount is effective to lower systemic blood pressure by a therapeutically beneficial amount, wherein delivery comprises injecting said heated fluid into tissue bound on the inside by the external elastic lamina of said blood vessel and bound on the outside by the outer extent of the adventitial and perivascular connective tissues that surround the blood vessel.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein delivery includes a step of positioning a needle through the wall of the blood vessel so that an aperture of the needle is positioned beyond an external elastic lamina (EEL) of the wall.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein delivery further includes a step of confirming that said heated fluid is penetrating said tissue by imaging either the heated fluid mixed with a diagnostic agent or by the delivery of a diagnostic agent prior to the delivery of the heated fluid.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the heated fluid is effective in heating nerves of the tissue from 42 C to 50 C.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the blood vessel is a vein or an artery.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the blood vessel is a renal vein.