Literature search strategy

Databases	Date searched	Version/files
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – CDSR (Cochrane Library)	28/03/2022	Issue 3 of 12, March 2022
Cochrane Central Database of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL (Cochrane Library)	28/03/2022	Issue 2 of 12, February 2022
International HTA database (INAHTA)	28/03/2022	-
MEDLINE (Ovid)	25/03/2022	1946 to March 25, 2022
MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid)	28/03/2022	March 25, 2022
MEDLINE Epubs ahead of print (Ovid)	25/03/2022	March 25, 2022
EMBASE (Ovid)	30/03/2022	1974 to 2022 March 30
EMBASE Conference (Ovid)	30/03/2022	1974 to 2022 March 30

The following search strategy was used to identify papers in MEDLINE. A similar strategy was used to identify papers in other databases.

exp Hypertension/

hypertens*.tw.

((high* or raise* or elevat* or increase*) adj4 (arterial* or blood or diastolic* or systolic*) adj4 pressure*).tw.

(HPB or SBP or DBP).tw.

or/1-4

exp Sympathectomy/

Sympathetic Nervous System/

denervation/

catheter ablation/

or/6-9

Kidney/

Renal Artery/

(Kidney or Renal).tw.

or/11-13

10 and 14

((kidney* or renal) adj4 (denervat* or sympathe* or catheter* or ablat* or neurectom* or neurotom*)).tw.

(RSD or RDN).tw.

(catheter* adj4 (renal or kidney) adj4 (denervat* or ablation*)).tw.

symplicit*.tw.

or/16-19

5 and 20

Spyral.tw.

21 or 22

animals/ not humans/

23 not 24

limit 25 to english language

limit 26 to ed=20200901-20220331

Interventional procedure overview of percutaneous transluminal renal sympathetic denervation for resistant hypertension