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By
Donald Hricik, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Nephrology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Transplantation
Services, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Michael Smith, MD, Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Jackson Wright, MD, Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Division of Hypertension, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
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Description
All the very latest clinical information on hypertension is covered in this practical addition to the popular Secrets Series . Coverage
includes Patient Assessment, Essential Hypertension, Secondary Hypertension, and Special Cases of Hypertension and focuses extensively
on all current drugs and therapies.
Audience
Internists, Nephrologists, Cardiologists
Contents
I Patient Assessment:
Measurement of Blood Pressure -
Clinical Evaluation of Hypertension -
Artifactual Hypertension and Ambulatory
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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
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Paperback, 153 pages, publication date: OCT-2001
ISBN-13: 978-1-56053-471-6
ISBN-10: 1-56053-471-0
Imprint: HANLEY AND BELFUS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS
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