Resistant Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Covic, Adrian (Editor), Kanbay, Mehmet (Editor), Lerma, Edgar V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Nephrology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This comprehensive volume provides a detailed review on the general work up of chronic kidney disease-associated resistant hypertension.  This title is separated into four parts; the first of which provides definitions, epidemiology, characteristics, risk stratification and outcomes of resistant and...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Definitions of Resistant Hypertension and Epidemiology of Resistant Hypertension
• Chapter 2. Definition and Characteristics of Hypertension Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease: Epidemiological Data
• Chapter 3. Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease: Another Cardiovascular-Renal Syndrome?
• Chapter 4. The Importance of Ambulatory and Home Monitoring Blood Pressure in Resistant Hypertension Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chapter 5. Resistant Hypertension and Outcomes in Patients With and Without Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chapter 6. Risk Stratification of Resistant Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chapter 7. Pathophysiological Insights in Resistant Hypertension
• Chapter 8. Pathophysiological Insights of Hypertension in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chapter 9. Secondary Causes: Work-up and Its Specificities in CKD, Which is the Most Common Identifiable Cause of Hypertension. I. Influence of Arterial Stiffening
• Chapter 10. Secondary Causes: Work-up and Its Specificities in CKD, Which Is the Most Common Identifiable Cause of Hypertension. II: Influence of Autonomic Dysfunction
• Chapter 11. Secondary Causes: Influence of Volume Overload, Especially in CKD Patients:  Excess Sodium Intake, Salt Retention in CKD
• Chapter 12. Resistant hypertension in elderly people with chronic kidney disease
• Chapter 13.  Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Resistant Hypertension
• Chapter 14. Interference with Pharmacological Agents to Resistant Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chapter 15. Public Health Efforts for Earlier Resistance Hypertension: Diagnosis, Reduction of Salt Content in Food, Promotion of the Use of Polypills to Facilitate Adherence, and Reimbursement Policies
• Chapter 16. Treatment of Resistant Hypertension in the Light of New Guidelines: Drug Adherence
• Chapter 17. Treatment of Resistant Hypertension in the Light of New Guidelines: Pharmacological Approaches Using Multiple Drugs
• Chapter 18. Devices for Neural Modulation (Renal Denervation, Barostimulation)
• Chapter 19. The Effect of CPAP Therapy on Resistant Hypertension in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chapter 20. Teaching Programs
• Chapter 21. Resistant Hypertension and the General Practitioner (Monitoring, Treatment). .