Pulse Waves : How Vascular Hemodynamics Affects Blood Pressure
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Paolo Salvi.
(Second edition)
--Cham:
Springer
, 2017.
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This new, revised and updated edition takes into account the most recent advances in the understanding of human pathophysiology. The book presents the complex basic principles of vascular hemodynamics and its pathophysiologie in a direct and effective way, stressing the importance of the mechanical properties of large arteries in the origin of blood pressure. The readily understandable text, supported by helpful images, describes the elements that define blood pressure and explains such importa…
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- Author
- Salvi, Paolo
- Responsibility
- Paolo Salvi
- Edition
- Second edition
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 217 pages) : 200 illus., 103 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319405018
- 9783319404998 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Blood Pressure - physiology
- Blood Pressure Determination
- Hemodynamics
- Hypertension - etiology
- Hypertension - physiopathology
- Abstract
- This new, revised and updated edition takes into account the most recent advances in the understanding of human pathophysiology. The book presents the complex basic principles of vascular hemodynamics and its pathophysiologie in a direct and effective way, stressing the importance of the mechanical properties of large arteries in the origin of blood pressure. The readily understandable text, supported by helpful images, describes the elements that define blood pressure and explains such important concepts as pulse wave velocity, central blood pressure, reflected waves, and pulse pressure amplification. Entirely new chapters are included on the sympathetic nervous system and arterial stiffness and on the role played by arterial stiffness in influencing blood pressure variability. The book will enable the physician to answer some of the key questions encountered when addressing the problem of arterial hypertension in everyday clinical practice: How is blood pressure generated? How should blood pressure values be interpreted? Is systolic blood pressure of greater importance than diastolic blood pressure?
- Contents
- 1. Vascular Hemodynamics and Blood Pressure -- 2. Pulse Wave Velocity and Arterial Stiffness Assessment -- 3. Arterial Stiffness and Blood Pressure Variability -- 4 Central Blood Pressure: Part 1, pathophysiology -- 5. Central Blood Pressure: Part 2, Pulse Wave Analysis -- 6. Aortic Stiffness and Myocardial Ischemia -- 7. Arterial Stiffness in Chronic Kidney Disease -- 8. Pulse Wave Velocity and Pulse Wave Analysis in Experimental Animals.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
