Pulmonary Denervation for Heart Failure-Related Pulmonary Hypertension.

August 30, 2026| Source: The New England journal of medicine

Pulmonary hypertension that is caused by left heart disease and is associated with heart failure may be driven by sympathetic overactivation leading to increased pulmonary vascular resistance, right ventricular dysfunction, and poor outcomes. Pulmonary-artery denervation may reduce sympathetic activity, although its clinical effects on left heart disease-associated pulmonary hypertension are unknown. We conducted a multicenter, randomized trial in China involving patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease and heart failure. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive pulmonary-artery denervation plus guideline-directed medical therapy or to receive medical therapy alone. The primary outcome was clinical worsening - a composite of death, heart or lung transplantation, hospitalization for heart failure, outpatient worsening of heart failure, or a decline in the 6-minute walk distance - through the latest follow-up. A total of 264 patients underwent randomization: 134 to receive pulmonary-artery denervation plus medical therapy and 130 to receive medical therapy alone. During a median follow-up of 338 days, the Kaplan-Meier estimated 2-year incidence of clinical worsening was 25.7% in the pulmonary-artery denervation group and 51.5% in the medical-therapy group (hazard ratio, 0.49; 95% confidence interval, 0.30 to 0.82; P = 0.006). Access-site hematomas occurred in two patients in the pulmonary-artery denervation group and in one patient in the medical-therapy group; there were no other procedural complications. Adverse events during follow-up occurred with similar frequency in the two groups. Among patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease and heart failure receiving guideline-directed medical therapy, pulmonary-artery denervation resulted in fewer events of clinical worsening than medical therapy. (Funded by Pulnovo Medical and others; PADN-HF-PH ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT05824923.).

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