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 chapters. Special emphasis is laid on newer pathophysiological aspects of the disease, in particular the vascular wall renin-angiotensin system.

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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.