REducing Sympathetic Activity Through Ultrasound-based Renal deneRvation in Excessive Cardiovascular Risk populaTions.

There is unequivocal evidence for an important contribution of increased renal sympathetic nerve activity to cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality in high risk patient cohorts with CKD, ESRD and HF. The availability of a highly effective catheter-based ultrasound device to selectively target renal nerves provides a potential unique opportunity to improve CV outcomes in these patients, a proposition that now needs to be tested in initial pilot trials and subsequent appropriately designed randomized controlled trials.