Main 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