Paediatric hypertension / Chiara Giovannozzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giovannozzi, Chiara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypertension in children.

Pediatric cardiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (68 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Torino : SEEd, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The covered topics range from the regulation of blood pressure and its assessment in children to day-to-day management. The attached calculator provides a hypertension assessment software: entering data about sex, height, systolic and diastolic pressure, the program indicates the presence and severity of hypertension.

Contents:

Title page; Colophon; Summary; Introduction; Definitions; Measuring Blood Pressure in Children; For Whom and When?; How; Pressure Doppler; Percentile Tables of Arterial Pressure for Children and Adolescents; Primary and Secondary Hypertension in Children; Primary Hypertension; Secondary Hypertension; Evaluation of the Hypertensive Child; Objective Exam; Supplementary Investigations for Hypertension; Anormality of Target Organs in Paediatric Hypertension; Clinical Evaluation in the Case of Confirmed Hypertension; Hypertension Therapy; Lifestyle-Related Measures

Pharmacological Therapy for Hypertension in the ChildTherapy of Emergencies and of Hypertensive Emergencies; Ambulatory Follow-Up of the Hypertensive Child; Appendix; Percentile Tables of Arterial Pressure for Children and Adolescents; Growth curves; References; Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9788889688526

8889688521

OCLC:

773565223