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Hypertension : An Atlas of Investigation and Management
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frohlich, Edward D., 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antihypertensive Agents -- therapeutic use--Atlases.
- Hypertension--Atlases.
- Hypertension -- etiology--Atlases.
- Hypertension -- physiopathology--Atlases.
- Hypertension -- therapy--Atlases.
- Hypertension.
- Vascular Diseases.
- Cardiovascular Diseases.
- Disease.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hypertension.
- Vascular Diseases.
- Cardiovascular Diseases.
- Disease.
- Local Subjects:
- Antihypertensive Agents -- therapeutic use--Atlases.
- Hypertension--Atlases.
- Hypertension -- etiology--Atlases.
- Hypertension -- physiopathology--Atlases.
- Hypertension -- therapy--Atlases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first volume of a new series of titles, each of which provides readers with a concise and carefully-structured pictorial reference to the clinical manifestations of disease and the means by which the diagnosis may be confirmed. In this volume the author begins by reviewing the basics of blood pressure measurement, clinical examination and assessment of risk factors, before moving on to review in turn the mechanisms that underlie the several different forms of hypertension, and the investigations which are appropriate to making a correct diagnosis in each case. The numerous clinical
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface and a brief apologia; Abbreviations; Dedication; Introduction; Chapter 1: Pathophysiology: disease mechanisms; Chapter 2: Evaluation of the patient; Chapter 3: Clinical pharmacology of antihypertensive agents; Chapter 4: Uncomplicated essential hypertension; Chapter 5: The heart in hypertension; Chapter 6: The kidney in hypertension; Chapter 7: Renal arterial disease; Chapter 8: Concluding comments; Epilogue; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-96448-4
- 9786611964481
- 1-84692-524-X
- OCLC:
- 437240902
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