Arterial Hypertension

Regulation of vascular tone and endothelial function and its alterations in cardiovascular disease; endothelin and endothelin antagomism; the renin-angiotension system in ACE inhibitors in the perioperative period; 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; haemodnamics in hypertension; coronary circulation and left ventricular function in hypertension; hypertensive microangiopathic angina with left ventricular hypertrophy; treatment with enalapril; hypertension; cardiac hypertrophy and the effects of anaesthesia; physiology of left ventricular diastolic function; oral antihypertensive drugs and anaesthesis; perioperative hypertension and its treatment with intravenous agents; impact of systemic hypertension on perioperative morbidity and mortality; pathophysiology of arterial ghypertension; implications in surgical patients.