Assessment of Preclinical Organ Damage in Hypertension

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Agabiti Rosei, Enrico (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mancia, Giuseppe (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Angiology.; Cardiology.; Nephrology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

This book presents up-to-date information on how to assess early preclinical alterations in the heart, the small and large arteries and the kidney in the general and the hypertensive population, using the most sensitive, specific and cost-effective techniques. A wide variety of techniques are discus...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• PART I: HEART 1 Electrocardiography
• 2 Echocardiography
• 3 New techniques: 3D, CT, MRI
• PART II: LARGE ARTERIES 4 Ultrasound of Carotid IMT and plaque.- 5 Ultrasound of the Aorta/coronary arteries.- 6 Pulse wave velocity and central BP.- 7 Ankle-brachial index
• 8 Atherosclerosis and general principles of arterial imaging
• 9 Imaging and ageing of the aorta and large arteries in the lower extremities
• PART III: SMALL ARTERIES 10 Micro myography
• 11 Damage of the retinal arterioles
• 12 Capillaroscopy
• 13 Other techniques for assessment
• PART IV: KIDNEY 14 Proteinuria
• 15 Glomerular Filtration Rate
• 16 Other techniques
• PART V: BRAIN 17 RMN/TC: Evaluation of Brain damage
• 18 Questionnaires for cognitive function
• 19 Other techniques for neurological damage.- 20 Relation between blood pressure and markers of organ damage.