Patent ID: 11883087
Assignee: MEDTRONIC IRELAND MANUFACTURING UNLIMITED COMPANY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method for treating a human patient with diagnosed systemic sympathetic overactivity, the method comprising:
neuromodulating afferent and efferent renal nerves in the human patient,
wherein neuromodulating afferent and efferent renal nerves includes selectively neuromodulating efferent renal nerves such that a greater percentage of efferent renal nerves are modulated relative to a percentage of modulated afferent renal nerves, and
wherein selectively neuromodulating the efferent renal nerves in the human patient improves a measurable physiological parameter corresponding to the systemic sympathetic overactivity of the human patient.