Renovascular and Renal Parenchymatous Hypertension [Paperback]

The Kidney and Hypertension.- The Kidney and Regulation of Blood Pressure.- Glomerular Hemodynamics and Experimental Renal Injury.- Sodium, the Kidney, and Hypertension.- Epidemiology and Clinical Importance of Renovascular and Renal Parenchymatous Hypertension.- Renovascular Hypertension.- Pathology and Pathogenesis of Renovascular Hypertension.- Mechanisms of Experimental and Human Renovascular Hypertension.- Vascular Renin-Angiotensin System and Renovascular Hypertension.- Angiographical Diagnosis of Renovascular (and Renal Parenchymatous) Hypertension.- Radioisotope Renography.- Noninvasive Assessment of Human Renal Blood Flow by Ultrasonic Doppler Flowmetry.- The Renin-Sodium Profile and the Captopril Test as Tools for the Diagnosis of Renovascular Hypertension.- Surgical Management of Main Renal Artery Disease.- Surgical Management of Branch Renal Arterial Disease.- Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty: Technique, Results and Complications.- Long-Term Results of Percutaneous Transluminal Renal Angioplasty.- Medical Therapy of Renovascular and Renal Parenchymatous Hypertension: General Principles.- Medical Therapy in Renovascular Hypertension: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors.- Renal Parenchymatous Hypertension.- The Kidney as Target Organ in Hypertension.- Imaging of Renal Parenchymatous Hypertension.- Sonographic Diagnosis of Renal Hypertension.- Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the Kidneys.- Bilateral Kidney Disease and Hypertension.- Diabetes, the Kidney, and Hypertension.- Renal Transplantation, Blood Pressure, and Hypertension.- Cyclosporine, Hypertension, and the Kidney.- Unilateral (Curable) Renal Parenchymatous Hypertension.- Surgical Treatment of Renal Parenchymatous Hypertension.This monograph provides a timely update on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapy of renovascular and renal parenchymatous hypertension. The underlying causes of the most common forms of hypertension are discussed in separate chal#)