Pulmonary Vein Isolation (PVI) Combined With Renal Denervation (RDN) in Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Hypertension (HTN)

Inclusion criteria

• 18<age<75years
• clinic blood pressure≥140/90mmHg or 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring average blood pressure ≥135/85mmHg
• Ecg diagnosis of atrial fibrillation ;
• who signed informed consent and were approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University.

Exclusion criteria

• pregnant women or lactating patients;
• Patients who were unsuitable for ablation before surgery （unilateral or bilateral renal artery shape and structure were found： renal artery stenosis exceeding 50%, renal aneurysm, previous renal artery interventional surgery, renal artery malformation, renal artery diameter < 4mm or length of treatable segment < 20mm）
• Patients who only have one kidney or have a history of kidney transplantation
• Patients with a history of renal arterial intervention or renal denervation
• identified secondary hypertension or Pseudo hypertension except for renal parenchymal hypertension;
• malignant tumors or end-stage diseases;
• Severe peripheral vascular disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm
• whose left atrium is larger than 55mm
• obvious bleeding tendency and blood system diseases;
• Severe peripheral vascular disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm;
• A history of the acute coronary syndrome within two weeks;
• acute or severe systemic infection;
• drug or alcohol dependence or refusal to sign informed consent.
• Other conditions that are not suitable for PVI and RDN