Half a million people in the United Kingdom High blood pressure is dangerous – a “Silent killer” This causes tens of thousands of deaths per year – can be treated with a new treatment.
Doctors have developed a technique to burn nodules that lead to a large amount of Salt accumulates in the bodyWhich increases the risk of stroke or a heart attack.
The hacking may mean the injured from The basic aldosterone – Which causes one in every 20 cases of high blood pressure – You no longer have to undergo surgery or their lives in taking the medicine Speronlactone To reduce the risk of stroke or a heart attack.
A person with essential ldosterone develops nodules on one or both adrenal glands. They sit next to the kidneys and make three main hormones: adrenaline, cortisol and aldosterone. The nodules, which can develop on one or two kidneys, produce excess amounts of aldosterone, which is the steroid hormone that regulates the amount of salt that the body keeps instead of using the kidneys to put it away. Then the detained salt gives a person a high blood pressure or high blood pressure.
The initial aldosterone can send a person’s blood pressure up to 200/130, much higher than the level of 120/80. Doctors say it is healthy, which increases the possibility of suffering from the fatal cardiovascular event. It may be difficult to treat because some patients do not respond well to standard blood pressure medications, and thus remain in an increased risk of death.
Doctors in London and Cambridge developed innovative therapy, which is called targeted thermal therapy (TTT) or the Endoscopic ultrasound. It can “convert” patients ’lives and treat this type of high blood pressure using short structures of severe heat from the needle to destroy nodules, says the paramedics concerned.
It takes only 20 minutes, and this is done under anesthesia and allows the patient to return home that day, while surgery to remove the adrenal gland takes from an hour and a half to two hours and includes the patient has a general drug and stay for two or three nights in the hospital.
The TTT experience was presented in 28 patients with the first reported aldosterone in Lancite last month, “evidence of the principle.” Four patients were able to get out of the drug completely after undergoing this procedure, while 12 others improved their blood pressure significantly or seized half of their drug consumption, and the body stopped producing a lot of aldosterone in three quarters of the participants.
“This procedure can transform life into one out of every 20 people who suffer from high blood pressure by reducing the risk of stroke and heart attack and irregular heartbeat. Professor Morris Brown, the co -author of Lancet and Professor of Endocrine in Barts, said“ They feel better, and they have more energy, and they are less depressed and achieve natural blood pressure without the need to take a medicine Every day or surgery. health NHS Trust in London.
We have learned about the primary aldosterone for 70 years, but nothing has changed in how it was managed for 30 years. Now we are able to get away from getting rid of a full organ for a doctrine of nail shades and improving the lives of people with high blood pressure for this particular reason.
“It is very exciting when people who have undergone highly uncontrolled high blood pressure for years have this procedure and return home on the same day and find that their blood pressure has returned to normal literally the next day,” added Brown, a professor of high endocrinology at QMUL University of QMUL.
QMUUL, Barts, University London Hospitals NHS TRST, Cambridge University and Adenbrok Hospital in Cambridge have been jointly developed.
Another experience, which included 110 patients, is now ongoing to test how TTT works.
Dr. Pauline Swift, head of blood pressure in the UK, said the results of the trial of 28 patients are “very encouraging. This gas technique seems to be minimal safe and effective. There are possible that there are many individuals who suffer from high blood pressure that may benefit from this new treatment.”
She added, “It is often called” silent killer “because it usually does not display any noticeable symptoms, but it greatly increases the risk of developing serious health issues such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease,” she added.
