Secondary Hypertension

Secondary forms of hypertension are not uncommon in clinical prac tice, but they are often overlooked or forgotten by clinicians in many fields of medicine. Dr. George Mansoor' s volume on Secondary Hyper tension is an important contribution to the field of clinical hypertension and vascular diseases, since it brings up to date the numerous diagnostic and therapeutic advances in the evaluation for secondary types of hyper tension. In the past, textbooks usually stated that an etiology could be determined in less than 5% of patients presenting with newly diagnosed hypertension. We now know this is far too low a proportion (e.g., pri mary hyperaldosteronism alone may account for hypertension in 5% of patients presenting with chronic elevations in blood pressure). Secondary Hypertension has been thoughtfully organized into chap ters evaluating screening and diagnosis, as well as medical and/or sur gical intervention of the well-known etiologies of secondary hypertension in adults and children. Additional coverage is given to such exogenous or lesser appreciated causes of secondary hypertension as obstructive sleep apnea and drugs. These sections make this book novel because in the past little attention has been paid to the effects of noncar diac drugs that interfere with antihypertensive therapy or to exogenous substances that might induce refractory hypertension.

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I Introduction.- 1 Refractory Hypertension.- 2 Iatrogenic and Drug-Induced Hypertension.- II Renal Disease and Secondary Hypertension.- 3 Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease.- 4 Diagnostic Evaluation for Patients With Renovascular Hypertension.- 5 Interventional Treatments for Renal Artery Stenosis.- 6 Medical Management of Renovascular Hypertension.- 7 Primary Reninism or Renin-Secreting Tumors.- III Adrenal Cortex and Hypertension.- 8 Primary Aldosteronism: Diagnosis.- 9 Medical Management of Primary Aldosteronism.- 10 Primary Aldosteronism: Surgical Approaches.- 11 Nonprimary Aldosteronism: Mineralocorticoid Disorders.- 12 Hypertension in Cushing's Syndrome.- IV Adrenal Medulla and Hypertension.- 13 Biochemical Diagnosis and Localization of Pheochromocytoma.- 14 Pheochromocytoma Treatment.- 15 New Insights into Pseudopheochromocytoma and Emotionally Provoked Hypertension.- V Children and Secondary Hypertension.- 16 Secondary Hypertension in Children and Adolescents.- VI Sleep Apnea and Hypertension.- 17 Sleep Apnea and Hypertension.