Blood Pressure Management and Stroke: Visual Guide for Clinicians

Clinical Publishing, December 2011, Pages: 58

In patients with a history of stroke or TIAs, blood pressure lowering markedly reduces the incidence of stroke recurrence. This guide provides a visual overview of the basic concepts clinicians managing patients with hypertension should understand about ischemic stroke. This includes an in-depth assessment of the relationship between treatment of hypertension and primary and secondary stroke prevention. This title will be a useful reference for doctors treating hypertension in hospital and primary care.

Readership:
Specialists in hypertension, nephrologists, general physicians, primary care doctors

Benefits:

- Instructive exploration of diagnosis and management of disease to aid practising clinicians and trainee doctors
- Topic-focused, highly illustrated with succint text - provides collection of original images for clinician's desktop
- Enables doctors managing hypertensive patients at risk of stroke to define suitable management plan.

1. Stroke basics
Isaac Silverman, Marilyn Rymer

2. The Management of acute ischemic stroke and secondary stroke prevention
Isaac Silverman, Marilyn Rymer

3. Hypertension as a risk factor for stroke
Luis Ruilope

Isaac Silverman, Stroke Center, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut, USA; Marilyn Rymer, Mid-America Brain and Stroke Institute, St Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA; Luis Ruilope, Hypertension Unit, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.

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