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Methods for bilateral renal neuromodulation

  • US 9,320,561 B2
  • Filed: 11/20/2014
  • Issued: 04/26/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of treating a disease of a human patient diagnosed with at least one of hypertension, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and renal failure by bilateral renal neuromodulation, the method comprising:

  • modulating a first neural fiber that innervates a first kidney of the patient via a first electric field that inhibits neural activity entering and exiting the first kidney, wherein the first electric field is delivered via a first energy delivery element positioned within a first renal artery of the patient; and

    modulating a second neural fiber that innervates a second kidney of the patient via a second electric field that inhibits neural activity entering and exiting the second kidney, wherein the second electric field is delivered via a second energy delivery element positioned within a second renal artery of the patient,wherein modulating the first and second neural fibers significantly improves a measureable physiological parameter corresponding to the disease of the patient,wherein at least one of the first kidney and second kidney continues to secrete renin in the patient after delivering the first and second electric fields.

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