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Publish Date: 1952/09/06
Volume: 150, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-62
Abstract
This monograph gives a competent summary of present knowledge of the diagnosis pathogenesis course and treatment of essential and malignant hypertension After a brief historical review the author describes the vascular endocrine parenchymatous and other lesions of essential hypertension malignant hypertension and experimental hypertension In the next chapter he describes the symptoms and signs of the four classic stages of essential hypertension namely simple hypertension stage 1 hypertension with arteriolosclerosis stage 2 hypertension with severe arteriolosclerosis and complications stage 3 and malignant hypertension stage 4 Then follows a chapter dealing with prognosis methods of clinical and laboratory examination to determine the severity of the hypertensive process and the pathophysiology and pathogenesis of essential and malignant hypertension The second part of the monograph discusses treatment The first chapter describes practically all of the medical therapy currently in vogue or recently proposed and the various forms of surgical intervention including extensive but
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