Hypertension and Heart Failure Epidemiology, Mechanisms and Treatment

Description:

This book explains how hypertension affects 20-50% of the adult population in developed countries. Heart failure is the result of the hypertension's effects on the heart and it represents a growing public health problem. 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. 

Table of contents:

Part I. Epidemiological Aspects

1. Epidemiological Aspects (Prevalence and Risk of Heart Failure Related to Blood Pressure)

Part II. Mechanisms of Heart Failure in Arterial Hypertension

2. Genetics of Hypertension and Heart Failure

3. Blood Pressure Variability and Blood Pressure Load

4. Hemodynamic Mechanisms

5. Neural Mechanisms

6. Natriuretic Peptides

7. Renal Mechanisms and Heart Failure

8. Heart Failure and Metabolic Factors

9. Role of Central Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffening

10. Pathophysiology of Hypertensive Heart Disease

Part III. Diagnosis of Heart Failure in Hypertensive Patients

11. Role of Echocardiography

12. The Additive Value of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Hypertensive Heart Disease

13. Biomarkers

Part IV. Complications of Hypertensive Heart Disease

14. Atrial Fibrillation and Other Arrhythmias in Hypertensive Heart Disease

15. Arterial Hypertension and Flash Pulmonary Edema

16. The Role of Drug Therapy in Lowering Mortality and Morbidity: From Established Heart Failure to High-Risk Hypertension

Part V. Prevention of Heart Failure in Hypertension

17. Non-pharmacological Treatment

18. Blood Pressure-Lowering Treatment and the Prevention of Heart Failure: Differences and Similarities of Antihypertensive Drug Classes

19. Regression Under Treatment of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Other Structural Alterations

Part VI. Treatment of Heart Failure in Hypertensive Patients

20. New Drugs for the Hypertensive Failing Heart

21. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Current Management and Future Strategies

22. Treatment of Acute Heart Failure in Hypertensive Crisis

Part VII. Invasive Approaches

23. Carotid Baroreceptor Stimulation

24. Renal Nerve Ablation

Part VIII. Hypertension, Heart Failure and Guidelines

25. Prevention and Treatment of Heart Failure in Hypertension Guidelines

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