Full Description
Advanced Therapy in Hypertension and Vascular Disease is intended as a clinical resource for health care professionals who evaluate and manage patients with hypertension with its many forms and challenges. The authors have endeavored to provide brief, focused chapters so that busy practitioners can find the information they need quickly when confronted with specific hypertension symptoms and presentations. The text covers specific management issues for all aspects of cardiac disease and hypertension including: lifestyle factors, HRT, sleep apnea, psychic and cerebrovascular problems, genetic screening, current teaching guidelines, medical genetics, and blood pressure management. The final section reviews practical aspects for those who teach in hypertension scenarios. The appendices round off the book providing standard reference tables from current guidelines.As with all titles in the Advanced Therapy Series, this book compliments traditional textbooks by offering expert treatment therapies from seasoned clinicians.
Contents
Preface Foreword Perspective on the new terminiology and definitions of the lifestyle measures Overview of the problems of the hypertension patient Offspring of hypertensive parent(s): Special Considerations Overview of Disease Management principles Overview of hypertension care from nonphysician providers Hypertension in Asia Hypetension in Africans Adolescents Treatment of hypertension in the athlete Hypertension and Weight Loss Salt and dietary change to control blood pressure Exercise and hypertension Alcohol and hypertension Hypertensive retinopathy and retinal vascular disease Blood pressure lowering in patients with prior stroke Atrial fibrillatioin and hypertension Hemorrhagic stroke Hypertension and lacunar infarcts Hypertensive Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Hypertension with Congestive Heart Failure Peripheral Arterial Disease and Hypertension Thoracic aorta dissection Evaluation and treatment of patients with hypertension and carotid atherosclerosis Aortic aneurysm Left ventricular hypertrophy by electrocardiogram on echocardiography or other imaging Hypertension and the patient with tachycardia Abdominal bruits in patients with hypertension Elevated calcium score on EBCT Incidentally discovered adrenal mass Adrenal vein smapling in the evaluation of hyperaldosternoism
