Overview
Summarizes the hemodynamics of hypertension and its implications for treatment
Describes the elements that define blood pressure and explains important concepts
Answers key questions on arterial hypertension faced during everyday clinical practice
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Table of contents(9 chapters)
Keywords
- Applanation tonometry
- Arterial hypertension
- Arterial stiffness
- Arterial tonometry
- Arteriosclerosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Augmentation Index
- Blood pressure variability
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cardiovascular risk
- Coronary heart disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Hemodynamics of hypertension
- Pulse wave analysis
- Pulse wave velocity
- Pulse wave velocity in animals
- Subendocardial variability ratio
- Vascular hemodynamics
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy
Paolo Salvi
About the author
Paolo Salvi, MD, PhD, is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He was Associate Professor in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Biology of Aging at Henri Poincaré University of Nancy (France) from 2007 to 2010. At present he is a researcher at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan, and adjunct professor in Cardiology at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pulse Waves
Book Subtitle: How Vascular Hemodynamics Affects Blood Pressure
Authors: Paolo Salvi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40501-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40499-8Published: 11 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82119-1Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40501-8Published: 29 October 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 217
Number of Illustrations: 97 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Angiology, Phlebology, Human Physiology