Resistant Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease (eBook)

Adrian Covic, MD, PhD, FERA, FESC, FRCP (London) Professor Internal Medicine & Nephrology University of Medicine,Grigore T. Popa,Iasi, Romania   Mehmet Kanbay, MD Professor of Medicine and Nephrology Department of Medicine Division of Nephrology University School of Medicine Istanbul, Turkey  Edgar V. Lerma, MDClinical Professor of MedicineSection of NephrologyUniversity of Illinois at Chicago College of MedicineAssociates in Nephrology, SCChicago, Illinois

Chapter 1. Definitions of Resistant Hypertension and Epidemiology of Resistant HypertensionChapter 2. Definition and Characteristics of Hypertension Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease: Epidemiological DataChapter 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 DiseaseChapter 5. Resistant Hypertension and Outcomes in Patients With and Without Chronic Kidney DiseaseChapter 6. Risk Stratification of Resistant Hypertension in Chronic Kidney DiseaseChapter 7. Pathophysiological Insights in Resistant HypertensionChapter 8. Pathophysiological Insights of Hypertension in Patients with Chronic Kidney DiseaseChapter 9. Secondary Causes: Work-up and Its Specificities in CKD, Which is the Most Common Identifiable Cause of Hypertension. I. Influence of Arterial StiffeningChapter 10. Secondary Causes: Work-up and Its Specificities in CKD, Which Is the Most Common Identifiable Cause of Hypertension. II: Influence of Autonomic DysfunctionChapter 11. Secondary Causes: Influence of Volume Overload, Especially in CKD Patients:  Excess Sodium Intake, Salt Retention in CKDChapter 12. Resistant hypertension in elderly people with chronic kidney diseaseChapter 13.  Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Resistant HypertensionChapter 14. Interference with Pharmacological Agents to Resistant Hypertension in Chronic Kidney DiseaseChapter 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 PoliciesChapter 16. Treatment of Resistant Hypertension in the Light of New Guidelines: Drug AdherenceChapter 17. Treatment of Resistant Hypertension in the Light of New Guidelines: Pharmacological Approaches Using Multiple DrugsChapter 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 DiseaseChapter 20. Teaching ProgramsChapter 21. Resistant Hypertension and the General Practitioner (Monitoring, Treatment)