Hypertension

A Symposium

Elexious Bell

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1951
• eBook ISBN: 9781452937519
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Hypertension: A Symposium was first published in 1951. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In the words of Dr. Eduardo Braun-Menendez of Buenos Aires, brilliant representative of the distinguished South American group of workers in the field, “Hypertension is today one of the deadliest enemies of mankind.”Though most medical men will not dispute the insidiousness of hypertension as an enemy of human health, there is far less agreement on what is of more immediate concern to the physician – the causes and treatment of the disease.This book summarizes existing knowledge with regard to hypertension, its problems, and its therapy, and thereby points the way for future research which may solve the problems. The volume presents the proceedings of a symposium on hypertension which was held at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1950 in honor of Drs. Elexious T. Bell, Benjamin J. Clawson, and George E. Fahr. Thirty papers by twenty-four physicians, together with the related questions and discussion, are published. A bibliography is given for each paper, and there are 125 illustrations. The authors represent every section of the United States and three foreign countries.The series of papers takes up, in addition to the pathologic anatomy of the disease, such widely different approaches to the treatment as the dietary, the pharmacologic, the surgical, and the psychological.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Greetings and a Word of Explanation
• Anatomical Considerations of Hypertension
• Experimental Studies on Hypertension
• Experimental Hypertension in the Rabbit
• The Renin-Angiotonin Pressor System
• The Participation of Hepatorenal Factors in Experimental Renal Hypertension
• Blood Volume and Extracellular Fluid Volume in Experimental Hypertension
• The Role of the Adrenal Cortex in the Pathogenesis of Experimental Hypertension
• The Mechanism of Hypertension Due to Desoxycorticosterone
• Sympatho-Adrenal Factors in Hypertension
• Experimental Hypertension
• The Pathological Anatomy in Primary Hypertension
• Some Observations on Renal Vascular Disease in Hypertensive Patients Based on Biopsy Material Obtained at Operation
• The Mechanism of Hypertension in Chronic Genuine Nephrosis
• Renal Hemodynamics in Essential Hypertension
• The Heart in Essential Hypertension
• The Adrenal Cortex and Hypertensive Vascular Disease
• Hepatorenal Factors in Essential Hypertension in Man
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• A Summary of Experimental Evidence Relating Life Stress to the Pathogenesis of Essential Hypertension in Man
• Vascular Reactivity and Hypertensive Disease
• Cerebral Attacks in Hypertension
• The Natural History of Hypertensive Vascular Disease
• Blood Lipid Transport in Hypertensive Patients and Its Relation to Atherosclerotic Complications
• The Hemodynamic Effects of Various Types of Therapy in Hypertensive Patients
• Sympathetic Blockade in the Therapy of Hypertension
• The Effect of Sympathectomy upon the Mortality and Survival Rates of Patients with Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease
• The Management of Hypertensive Patients: Observations on the Pertinence of Life Situations, Attitudes, and Emotions to Variations in the Course of Essential Hypertension and to the Occurrence of Associated Symptoms
• Recent Experiences with the Pharmacologic Treatment of Hypertension
• Some Effects of the Rice-Fruit Diet in Patients with Essential Hypertension
• Pyrogens in the Treatment of Malignant Hypertension
• Bibliography