Title | Kidney in Essential Hypertension [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Course on the Kidney in Essential Hypertension held at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18-19, 1983 / edited by Franz H. Messerli |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1984 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3897-0 |
Descript | XII, 260 p. online resource |
The Kidney in the Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension -- 1. The Role of a Circulating Sodium Transport Inhibitor to Essential Hypertension -- 2. Atrial Natriuretic Factor -- 3. The Physiology and Cell Biology of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Hypertension -- 4. Prostaglandins and Hypertension -- 5. Kallikrein and Kinins in Epithelial Ion Transport -- 6. Renal Afferent Nerves: Evidence for a Role in Cardiovascular Regulation and the Pathogenesis of Experimental Hypertension -- 7. Renal Blood Flow and Function in Essential Hypertension -- 8. The Kidney and Experimental Hypertension -- The Kidney as a Target Organ in Essential Hypertension -- 9. Determinants of Exaggerated Natriuresis in Arterial Hypertension -- 10. Renal Hemodynamics in Obese and Lean Essential Hypertensive Patients -- 11. Sodium and Water Excretion in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure and Cirrhosis -- 12. Comparison of Renal Hemodynamics in Black and White Patients with Essential Hypertension -- Antihypertensive Treatment and the Kidney -- 13. Effects of Beta-Adrenergic Antagonists and Diuretics on Kidney Function in Hypertensive Patients -- 14. The Effects of Central Alpha-Adrenoceptor Agonists and Adrenergic-Neuronal Blocking Agents on the Kidney -- 15. Effects of Alpha1-Adrenoceptor Antagonists and Directly Acting Vasodilators on the Kidney -- 16. Diuretics and the Kidney -- 17. Converting Enzyme Inhibition and the Kidney: Effect on Potassium Homeostasis and Renal Function -- 18. Systemic and Renal Hemodynamic Effects of Enalapril in Patients with Essential Hypertension -- 19. Antihypertensive Treatment in Renal Failure