Coastweek — Heart specialists at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi have performed first key-hole operation to treat hypertension in the region.
Hypertension (more commonly known as ‘high blood pressure’) is the most important preventable risk factor for premature death worldwide.
The new operation which may have the potential to cure hypertension, or high blood pressure, was introduced by doctors at the Heart and Cancer Centre (HCC) of the Aga Khan University Hospital.
For the first time in Kenya, the doctors used Renal Denervation Therapy on a patient with treatment-resistant hypertension.
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