Chronic kidney disease and hypertension
By: Matthew R. Weir, Edgar V. Lerma, editors
Series: Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases; Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781493919819; 9781493919826
Subjects: Cardiology; Renal Hypertension; Nephrology; Etiology; Chronic renal failure; Chronic Renal Insufficiency; Complications; Medicine
Description: The treatment of hypertension has become the most important intervention in the management of all forms of chronic kidney disease. Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension is a current, concise, and practical guide to the identification, treatment and management of hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease. In depth chapters discuss many relevant clinical questions and the future of treatment through medications and or novel new devices. Written by expert authors, Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension provides an up-to-date perspective on management and treatment and how it may re-shape practice approaches tomorrow. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Changes in Guideline Trends and Applications in Practice: JNC 2013 and the future; title: Central BP monitoring, Home BP Monitoring, Ambulatory BP Monitoring in CKD; title: Resistant hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease; title: Neurogenic Factors In Hypertension Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease; title: Novel Molecules; title: Dual Inhibitors: RAAS Blockers/Combination Therapies: What Do All These Trials Mean?; title: Renal Sympathetic Denervation; title: Novel baroreceptor activation therapy; title: Blood Pressure Vaccines; title: Masked Hypertension: Does it Lead to CVD or CKD?; title: White Coat Hypertension- Do We Really Understand It Now?; title: Uric Acid And Hypertension; title: Is There Really A Link?.- Preeclampsia: Angiogenic factors, blood pressure, and the kidney; title: Inflammation and Hypertension; title: Genome-Wide Association Studies (Gwas) Of Blood Pressure In Different Populations; title: Endocrine Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease; title: Hypertension in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease; title: Obesity/OSA/Metabolic syndrome in pts with CKD and hypertension-the missing link.