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- ISBN: 9780198701972 | 0198701977
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/21/2015
Sunil Nadar, Consultant Cardiologist, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK,Gregory Lip, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Sunil Nadar is a Consultant Cardiologist at the University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK. His work includes general cardiology and interventional cardiology. He performs coronary angiographies (to look at the nature of heart arteries), angioplasties (procedure to stretch blocked arteries with a balloon and stent), echocardiography and pacemakers. He also has an interest in hypertension (high blood pressure), management of palpitations and breathlessness.
Gregory Lip is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Half of his time is spent as a clinician, and he practises the full range of cardiovascular medicine, including outpatient clinics, with large atrial fibrillation and hypertension specialist clinics, and coronary care units. As an academic, Professor Lip provides strategy and research direction for his group, with many local, national, and international collaborations in progress. He has had a major interest into the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as the pathophysiology of thromboembolism in this arrhythmia.
PART 1. Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis
1. Epidemiology of hypertension, Sunil Nadar
2. Pathophysiology of hypertension, Sunil Nadar
3. Renovascular hypertension, Sunil Nadar
4. Primary hyperaldosteronism, Sunil Nadar
5. Lifestyle influences on blood pressure, Kulwinder Sandhu
6. Diagnosis and investigations of hypertension, Sunil Nadar
PART 2. Complications of hypertension
7. Hypertension: a cardiovascular risk factor, Rajesh Nambiar
8. Target organ damage in hypertension, Sunil Nadar
9. Left ventricular hypertrophy, Sunil Nadar
PART 3. Management and treatment of hypertension
10. Atrial fibrillation and hypertension, Kulwinder Sandhu and Shamil Yusuf
11. Non Pharmacological management of hypertension, Kulwinder Sandhu and Sunil Nadar
12. Diuretics in hypertension, Timothy Watson and Mehmood Butt
13. Beta-blockers in hypertension, Deepak Goyal and Sunil Nadar
14. Calcium-channel blockers and hypertension, Ali Hammad and Sunil Nadar
15. ACE inhibitors in hypertension, Sunil Nadar
16. Angiotensin receptor blockers and hyper-tension, Jaspal S. Taggar and Mehmood Butt
17. Other Antihypertensives, Shankar B. Patil and Muzahir H. Tayebjee
18. Renal Denervation, Viji Samuel
19. Antithrombotic therapy in hypertension, Sunil Nadar
PART 4. Special conditions
20. Hypertension and cardiovascular risk management, John Kurien and Sunil Nadar
21. Guidelines on the pharmacological management of hypertension, Gregory Lip and Sunil Nadar
22. Hypertension in pregnancy, V. J. Karthikeyan
23. Malignant hypertension, V. J. Karthikeyan
24. Treatment of the elderly patient, Mohammad Khan and Pravin Jha
25. Resistant hypertension, Timothy Watson and Sunil Nadar
26. Hypertension in diabetic patients, Vasudevan A. Raghavan and Sunil Nadar
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