Management of Hypertension: Current Practice and the Application of Landmark Trials - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319929453 ISBN 13 : 9783319929453

Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

Synopsis

There is no book about Hypertension with such a concept in the existing literature in the field.

All the major hypertension trials discussed in a book - pros, cons, effects on international guidelines, unmet needs

The reader will be introduced in the first section on how to read and understand a scientific paper.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Vasilios Papademetriou, MD, is a professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and staff cardiologist at Veterans Affairs Medical Centre in Washington, DC. He is the director of cardiovascular research, interventional hypertension and vascular medicine program, and co-director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Veterans Affairs Medical Centre. Dr Papademetriou's clinical interests include cardiac catheterization, PCI/STENTS, myocardial biopsies, pericardiocentesis, stress and transesophageal echocardiography, and revascularization of high risk patients. He runs a large clinic of patients with resistant hypertension and dyslipidemia, while his research is focused on hypertension and vascular biology, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, acute coronary syndromes/acute MI, and cardiovascular complications of diabetes. He has special interest in device-based treatment of patients with resistant hypertension and he is one of the principal investigators of the Renal Denervation projects. He has been a principal investigator for many "investigator initiated" and multicenter clinical trials and received numerous research grants from both public funding and industrial sponsors.

Dr Emmanuel A. Andreadis, MD, PhD is the director of the Fourth Department of Internal Medicine and the Head of the Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center at Evangelismos General Hospital, in Athens, Greece, which has been recognized as an ESH Center of Excellence since 2012. Recently, Dr Andreadis and the Center became affiliated with the Hypertension and Vascular Medicine Clinic of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Washington, DC, USA. He trained extensively in hypertension at the University Department of Medicine & Therapeutics and the Glasgow Blood Pressure Clinic, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK, and he is an ESH Clinical Hypertension Specialist. He is also a European Fellow on Medical Angiology having trained at the Saint Mary's Hospital, in London, UK. Dr Andreadis is a member of the European Society of Hypertension and the Hellenic Society of Hypertension. His research focuses on hypertension and especially on blood pressure monitoring. He is a highly talented and experienced clinician, with over 35 years of experience in hospital and clinic settings in both acute and primary care. He is highly familiar with the diagnosis and treatment of multiple disease states and health concerns.

Dr Charalampia V. Geladari, MD is a senior Internal Medicine Resident and a Research Fellow at the Hypertension and Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic, Fourth Department of Internal Medicine at Evangelismos General Hospital, in Athens, Greece, and also at the Hypertension and Vascular Medicine Clinic, of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Washington, DC, USA. She has previously been a postdoctoral cardiovascular fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing AG
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319929453
• ISBN 13: 9783319929453
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 325
• Éditeur: Papademetriou Vasilios, Andreadis Emmanuel A., Geladari Charalampia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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