SCAI 2026 Building and Sustaining Your RDN Program-Performing rRDN: A Step-by-Step Case Review, Dr. Khuddus

Performing rRDN: A Step-by-Step Case Review, Dr. Khuddus

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Video Summary

This talk reviews a radiofrequency renal denervation case in a 55-year-old man with resistant hypertension on six medications. It emphasizes patient selection, shared decision-making, and careful procedural planning using prior imaging or angiography. Key steps include sedation, airway management, ultrasound-guided access, heparinization, and use of a short guide catheter and RF system. Treatment is performed distally to proximally, avoiding ostia, bifurcations, stenoses, and prior lesions. Proper catheter apposition, electrode selection, and generator feedback guide ablation. After treating both renal arteries, the patient is discharged same day with home BP monitoring and follow-up.

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Keywords

radiofrequency renal denervation

resistant hypertension

patient selection

ultrasound-guided access

renal artery ablation