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&aposs Syndrome; how glucocorticoids cause hypertension and cardiovascular disease; primary aldosteronism, Conn&aposs diagnosis and management; familial or genetic primary aldosteronism in Gordon&aposs Sydrome; Liddle&aposs Syndrome, 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 and PCOS; and oral contraceptives and hypertension.
Author | Krakoff |
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Format | 229 x 152 (6 x 9) |
Page Count | 216 |
Publish Date | 13 Jun 2011 |