Main description:

Secondary forms of hypertension are not uncommon in clinical prac tice, but they are often overlooked or forgotten by clinicians in many fields of medicine. Dr. George Mansoor' s volume on Secondary Hyper tension is an important contribution to the field of clinical hypertension and vascular diseases, since it brings up to date the numerous diagnostic and therapeutic advances in the evaluation for secondary types of hyper tension. In the past, textbooks usually stated that an etiology could be determined in less than 5% of patients presenting with newly diagnosed hypertension. We now know this is far too low a proportion (e.g., pri mary hyperaldosteronism alone may account for hypertension in 5% of patients presenting with chronic elevations in blood pressure). Secondary Hypertension has been thoughtfully organized into chap ters evaluating screening and diagnosis, as well as medical and/or sur gical intervention of the well-known etiologies of secondary hypertension in adults and children. Additional coverage is given to such exogenous or lesser appreciated causes of secondary hypertension as obstructive sleep apnea and drugs. These sections make this book novel because in the past little attention has been paid to the effects of noncar diac drugs that interfere with antihypertensive therapy or to exogenous substances that might induce refractory hypertension.

Contents:

Part I. Introduction

Refractory Hypertension
George A. Mansoor

Iatrogenic and Drug-Induced Hypertension
Ehud Grossman and Franz H. Messerli

Part II. Renal Disease and Secondary Hypertension

Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease
Robert D. Toto

Diagnostic Evaluation for Patients With Renovascular Hypertension
Sumeska Thavarajah and William B. White

Interventional Treatments for Renal Artery Stenosis
George A. Mansoor

Medical Management of Renovascular Hypertension
Vincent J. Canzanello

Primary Reninism or Renin-Secreting Tumors
Timothy L. Reudelhuber

Part III. Adrenal Cortex and Hypertension

Primary Aldosteronism: Diagnosis
William F. Young, Jr.

Medical Management of Primary Aldosteronism
Emmanuel L. Bravo

Primary Aldosteronism: Surgical Approaches
Mihir M. Desai and Inderbir S. Gill

Nonprimary Aldosteronism: Mineralocorticoid Disorders
William T. Kendrick, Jean-Michel Achard, and David G. Warnock

Hypertension in Cushing's Syndrome
Judith A. Whitworth, George J. Mangos, and John J. Kelly

Part IV. Adrenal Medulla and Hypertension

Biochemical Diagnosis and Localization of Pheochromocytoma
Emmanuel L. Bravo

Pheochromocytoma Treatment
Carl D. Malchoff, Dougald MacGillivray, and Steven Shichman

New Insights into Pseudopheochromocytoma and Emotionally Provoked Hypertension
Otto Kuchel

Part V. Children and Secondary Hypertension

Secondary Hypertension in Children and Adolescents
Empar Lurbe and Josep Redon

Part VI. Sleep Apnea and Hypertension

Sleep Apnea and Hypertension
Thomas G. Pickering and Mona Yacoub

Index