Different strokes

摘要

Chronic high blood pressure sufferers could benefit from an implant that sends electrical pulses to the brain, say doctors at Bristol University. A team working at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol have shown that the device, similar to a cardiac pacemaker, can provide a surgical alternative to blood-pressure drugs. They successfully used the deep-brain-stimulation technique, usually applied for mental illnesses and neurological conditions, on a 55-year-old man when drugs were unable to control his high blood pressure following a stroke.