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  The Evaluation of Clinical Efficacy with Radiofrequency Ablation of Thoracic Sympathetic Nerve in theTreatment of Heart Failure
  Author(s): Min Luo
  
  Despite the widespread use of pharmacologic therapy and devices, the overall prognosis of heart failure patients remains poor and new therapies are needed. Release the sympathetic hyperexcitability due to thoracic sympathetic nerve irritation by thoracic pathology ( e.g. herniated disc, hypertrophic ligamentum flavum ) by radiofrequency ablation may be significantly useful for the treatment of heart failure. In our study, 120 patients with heart failure were divided into two groups with Experimental group receiving radiofrequency ablation of the appropriate thoracic spine lesion and the associated thoracic sympathetic  nerve and Control group receiving the usual cardiac medication. Clinical efficacy were evaluated by N terminal pro B type natriuretic.. View More»
  

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