Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection (UHCP)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Epidemiological Aspects
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Mechanisms of Heart Failure in Arterial Hypertension
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Diagnosis of Heart Failure in Hypertensive Patients
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Complications of Hypertensive Heart Disease
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About this book
In this context the international scientific community is continuously struggling to develop better strategies in screening, diagnosing and treating hypertension and its deleterious effects. Thus, this field is continuously changing, with new important information being added constantly.
This volume will offer both insights into the intimate mechanisms of transition from hypertension to heart failure and clinical practice advice on the prevention and treatment of heart failure in hypertensive population. The mechanisms which explain the progression from hypertension to heart failure will be also covered exhaustively by offering two chapters referring to the diagnosis of heart failure in hypertensive population and one regarding echocardiography which is the most frequently used imaging method in clinical practice. The reader will be also provided with information on cardiovascular magnetic resonance which has the unique advantage of differentiating hypertensive heart failure from other pathologies associated with increased myocardial thickness.
This book is a useful tool for clinicians but also to the research community interested in heart failure and consequences of hypertension on heart who want to be up-to-date with the new developments in the field.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hypertension and Heart Failure
Book Subtitle: Epidemiology, Mechanisms and Treatment
Editors: Maria Dorobantu, Giuseppe Mancia, Guido Grassi, Victor Voicu
Series Title: Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93320-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93319-1Published: 10 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93320-7Published: 30 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2366-4606
Series E-ISSN: 2366-4614
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 416
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Nephrology, Vascular Surgery, Pharmacotherapy