Description
Book SynopsisHypertension is another name for high blood pressure. It can lead to severe complications and increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death. Blood pressure is the force exerted by the blood against the walls of the blood vessels.
This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of high blood pressure.
Divided into three sections, the text begins with an overview of the condition, current guidelines on its management, potential organ damage, and nonpharmacological treatments.
The next section covers the management of hypertension with associated disorders such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, kidney disease, and more. A complete chapter discusses ‘white coat’ hypertension.
The final section discusses management approaches when initial treatment fails, and hypertensive emergencies.
Each chapter is presented as a case scenario, describing background, previous control attempts, challenges and treatments.
Authored by experts from the University of South Carolina, the text is further enhanced by clinical images, figures and tables.
Key points
- Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of hypertension
- Chapters presented as step by step case scenarios
- Covers treatment of hypertension with associated conditions
- Authored by experts from the University of South Carolina
Table of ContentsSection 1: General Concepts
- Current guidelines of hypertension management
- Hypertensive Target Organ Damage: Mechanism and Recognition
- Initial and Subsequent Pharmacologic Treatment of Hypertension
- Nonpharmacological Approaches to Blood Pressure Management
- Hypertension: Ethnic and Racial Considerations
- Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure: A Contributor to Treatment-Refractory Resistant Hypertension
- Redesigning a primary care clinic to optimize hypertension control
- Evidence-based Medicine and Management of Hypertension
Section 2: HTN in special populations
- Hypertension in the patient with cardiovascular disease
- Hypertension and Stroke
- Hypertension in the Patient with Chronic Kidney Disease
- Renal Artery Stenosis
- Management of Hypertension in the Patient with Diabetes
- Isolated systolic Hypertension in the elderly patient
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypertension
- White-Coat Hypertension
- Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes of Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders
- Hypertension in children and adolescents
Section 3: When other measures fail
- When Treatment Fails: Case-Based Discussion of Resistant Hypertension
- Evaluation of secondary etiologies
- Management of Hypertensive urgency and emergencies
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