Offers detailed case studies that will help the reader to recognize and treat hypertensive patients at high risk of cardiovascular events

Summarizes the main approaches to identifying patients with misdiagnosed Cardiac Target Organ Damage

Presents the latest international guidelines, applying them directly to six representative clinical cases

Autorentext

Raffaele Izzo graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Second University of Naples and subsequently specialized in Cardiology at the "Federico II" University of Naples, where he attended the Non Invasive Hemodynamic Laboratory at the Hypertension Center and worked on functional endothelial changes in humans. He was granted a Research Fellowship in Cardiovascular Physiopathology at the "Tor Vegata" University of Rome and he won a National Scholarship at the Italian Society of Hypertension. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Cardiology department and Chief of the Non Invasive Hemodynamic Laboratory at the Hypertension Center of the "Federico II" University. He has been a member of the Italian Society of Hypertension since 1995, and of the Italian Society of Cardiology since 1996. He is the author of roughly 75 publications and attended as lecturer several international scientific meetings. His research chiefly focuses on arterial hypertension, on the role of the sympathetic system, and on the regulation and progression of cardiovascular structural changes.

Inhalt

Clinical case 1: Patient with Hypertension and Left atrial enlargement.- Clinical case 2: Patient with Hypertension and Aortic root dilatation.- Clinical case 3: Patient with Hypertension and Diastolic Dysfunction.- Clinical case 4: Patient with Hypertension and Systolic Dysfunction.- Clinical case 5: Patient with Hypertension and Left ventricular enlargement.- Clinical case 6: Patient with Hypertension and Right ventricular enlargement.