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.
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 -Cushings 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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