Hypertension: A Case-Based Approach

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth W. Edwards (editor), Donald J. Dipette (editor)

• Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 399
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hypertension 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contributors
Foreword • C. Venkata S. Ram
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Section 1: General Concepts
1. Current Guidelines of Hypertension Management • Elizabeth W. Edwards, Emily Huggins
2. Hypertensive Target Organ Damage: Mechanism and Recognition • Tatsuo Shimosawa
3. Initial and Subsequent Pharmacologic Treatment of Hypertension • Elizabeth W. Edwards, Neda Azizzadeh, Bonnie L. White
4. Nonpharmacological Approaches to Blood Pressure Management • Alvin L. Day, Brent M. Egan
5. Hypertension: Ethnic and Racial Considerations • Kenneth Connell, Jamario Skeete, Julian Reece
6. Salt Sensitivity of Blood Pressure: A Contributor to Treatment-Refractory Resistant Hypertension • Fernando Elijovich, Cheryl L. Laffer
7. Redesigning a Primary Care Clinic to Optimize Hypertension Control • Norm R.C. Campbell, Emily Ridley
8. Evidence-based Medicine and Management of Hypertension • Daniel T. Lackland
Section 2: Hypertension in Special Populations
9. Hypertension in the Patient with Cardiovascular Disease • Jamario Skeete, Michael Wagner, Paige Colgrove, Donald J. DiPette
10. Hypertension and Stroke • Elizabeth W. Edwards, Donald J. DiPette
11. Hypertension in the Patient with Chronic Kidney Disease • Jaron L. Pettis, Raymond R. Townsend
12. Renal Artery Stenosis • Marcelo Orias, Valeria Vukelic
13. Management of Hypertension in the Patient with Diabetes • Ali A. Rizvi
14. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Hypertension • Imran Hasan Iftikhar, Catherine M. Millender
15. White-Coat Hypertension • Anthony J. Viera
16. Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes of Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders • Panagiotis Kompotiatis, Vesna D. Garovic
17. Hypertension in Children and Adolescents • Sara Sheehan, Gregg Talente
Section 3: When Other Measures Fail
18. When Treatment Fails: Case-based Discussion of Resistant Hypertension • Stephen C. Textor
19. Evaluation of Secondary Etiologies • Debbie L. Cohen
20. Management of Hypertensive Urgency and Emergencies • Shawna D. Nesbitt, Poghni Allenn Peri-Okonny
Index