Full Description
All the very latest clinical information on hypertension is covered in this practical addition to the popular "Secrets" series. Coverage of this book includes: Patient Assessment; Essential Hypertension; Secondary Hypertension; and Special Cases of Hypertension. It focuses extensively on all current drugs and therapies.
Contents
I Patient Assessment: Measurement of Blood Pressure - Clinical Evaluation of Hypertension - Artifactual Hypertension and Ambulatory - Hypertensive Crises II Essential Hypertension: Epidemiology of Hypertension - Pathophysiology of Essential (Primary) Hypertension - Natural History of Hypertension - III Secondary Hypertension -Renal Parenchymal Hypertension -Renovascular Hypertension -Hyperaldosteronism -Pheochromocytoma -Cushing's Syndrome and Congenital Adrenal -Hyperplasia - -Other Forms of Secondary Hypertension IV Special Cases of Hypertension -Childhood Hypertension -Hypertension in Pregnancy -Hypertension After Renal Transplantation -Hypertension in End-stage Renal Disease -Resistant Hypertension -Hypertension in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus -Isolated Systolic Hypertension and Hypertension in the Elderly V Therapeutic Principles -Non-drug Therapy -Treatment of Hypertensive Crises -Diuretics -Beta Blockers -Alpha Blockers -Calcium Channel Blockers -Peripheral Adrenergic Inhibitors, Centrally Acting Sympatholytics, and Vasodilators -Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers -Application of Therapeutic Principles
