Endocrine-adrenal and steroid hypertension: an issue of endocrinology clinics

This important issue of Endocrinology Clinics is devoted to the unique topic of endocrine-adrenal and steroid hypertension. The following topics are covered. An overview of endocrine systems and hypertension; accuracy and cost effectiveness of screening for adrenal-endocrine hypertension; pheochromocytoma and related chromaffin cell tumors in adreno-medullary disease; variants, detection, and treatment of Cushing's Syndrome; how glucocorticoids cause hypertensionand cardiovascular disease; primary aldosteronism, Conn's diagnosis and management; familial or genetic primary aldosteronism in Gordon's Sydrome; Liddle'sSyndrome, Bartter, Gitelman, and related disorders of high and low pressure and pregnancy-related hypertension due to MR mutation; glucocorticoid remediable hypertension; low rennin hypertension in childhood; ovarian hypertension andPCOS; and oral contraceptives and hypertension.

• ISBN: 978-1-4557-0441-5
• Editorial: Saunders
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 09/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés