Hypertension Secrets

Subtitle:: A Hanley & Belfus Publication
Author:: Hanley & Belfus Publishing; Donald Hricik
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

Contributors from Case Western Reverse University provide a broad range of information about the common disorder for clinical trainees and more advanced practitioners. They cover patient assessment, essential and secondary hypertension, special cases, and therapeutic principles. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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All the very latest clinical information on hypertension is covered in this practical addition to the popular Secrets SeriesTM. Coverage includes Patient Assessment, Essential Hypertension, Secondary Hypertension, and Special Cases of Hypertension and focuses extensively on all current drugs and therapies.

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Editor:: Michael Smith; Donald Hricik; Wright Jackson
Publisher:: Hanley & Belfus
ISBN:: 9781560534716
Publication date:: January 2002
Length:: 234mm
Width:: 162mm
Thickness:: 12mm
Weight:: 281g
Pages:: 153
Illustrations:: Illustrated
Readership:: Undergraduate

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