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Hypertension and Heart Failure (eBook, PDF)

Epidemiology, Mechanisms and Treatment

Redaktion: Dorobantu, Maria; Voicu, Victor; Grassi, Guido; Mancia, Giuseppe

Beschreibung

Presents newly discovered mechanisms and concepts which explain the transition from hypertension to heart failure

Includes a special part regarding the diagnostic of heart failure in hypertension patients with a state of the art review on the role of advanced imaging techniques Approaches newly developed pharmacological and invasive treatments of hypertensive heart failure

Technische Details

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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Maria Dorobantu is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Romania, and head of the Cardiology Department of Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest. She has a special interest in the assessment and treatment of heart failure and arterial hypertension and has been principal investigator of important trials. She is the President of the Romanian Society of Hypertension and the national coordinator of the SEPHAR studies (Study for the Evaluation of Prevalence of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk among the Adult Population of Romania). Since 2016 she has been the chairperson of the Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation Working Group of Europeam Society of Cardiology.  Giuseppe Mancia is Professor Emeritus of the University of Milano and Head of the Hypertension Centre of the Instituto Clinico Universitario, Verano Brianza. He is President of the Italian Foundation on "Ricerca e Innovazione su Ipertensione e Protezione Cardiovascolare", of the Foundation of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) in Zurich and Chairman of the Educational Board of ESH. He is since many years in the list of the "highly cited" scientists (Thompson Reuters) and has in 2013 been regarded as one of the 400 most influential biomedical investigators in the world (EJCI 2013). Guido Grassi is Professor of Internal Medicine at the Clinica Medica of the University of Milano, director of the PhD course in "Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk", and director of the Center of Clinical Physiology and Hypertension of the same university. He is member of the Scientific Council on Hypertension of the ESC, ESH and ISH. He is also member of the ESH/ESC Task   Force Guidelines on the Management of Hypertension. He is Executive Editor of "Journal of Hypertension", official Journal of the ISH and the ESH. Victor Voicu is currently fellow the andvice president of Romanian Academy and President of Medical Science Section of Romanian Academy. He is Professor of Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" Bucharest. He is President of the Romanian Society of Therapeutics, Pharmacology and Clinical Toxicology, and coordinator of Drug Sciences Panel of the Executive Unit for Financing of Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (EUFHERDI). Prof. Voicu is correspondent member from abroad  of French National Academy of Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319933207
• Artikelnr.: 55984643

Rezensionen

"This book is suitable for large number of healthcare professionals in different specialties who interact with hypertensive patients in various stages of disease. ... This book provides comprehensive yet clear insights into the intimate mechanisms of the transition from hypertension to heart failure and a clinical guide to prevention and treatment in this population. The expert authors have presented a learning platform with up-to-date new developments in this field for wide range of clinicians." (Rikin Sanjay Kadakia, Doody's Book Reviews, August 02, 2019)