The ABCs of antihypertensive therapy
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The ABCs of antihypertensive therapy
Author's Pub. House, 2000
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Antihypertensive therapy : past, present, and future
- Evolution of hypertension and hemodynamics
- Evolution of hemodynamic and neuroendocrine changes in the course of hypertension
- Target organs in hypertension : the vascular tree
- The heart
- The kidney
- The brain
- Diuretics
- Beta-blockers
- Alpha1-blockers
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors
- Calcium channel blockers
- Rational antihypertensive therapy : overview
- Nonpharmacologic blood pressure reduction
- Treatment of borderline and mild essential hypertension
- Sustained or established hypertension
- Hypertension and target organ disease
- The elderly
- The patient with congestive heart failure
- The patient with coronary heart disease
- The patient with syndrome X : is it linked through the Y chromosome?
- The stroke-prone patient
- The patient with renal failure
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Now in its thoroughly updated Second Edition, this handbook is an authoritative guide to rational antihypertensive therapy. The book is designed to assist clinicians in choosing among the many drugs now available and tailoring treatment to the individual patient.Leading experts present pharmacologic profiles of all current antihypertensive drugs and discuss both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment for hypertension of varying degrees of severity. This edition features a new chapter on combination therapy. Also included are guidelines for special situations -- hypertensive emergencies and urgencies, the elderly, the insulin resistance syndrome, stroke-prone patients, and patients with congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, or renal failure.
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