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A hemodynamic approach to resistant hypertension
S J Taler1, J Augustine, S C Textor
1Department of Medicine, Division of Hypertension and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905.
Congestive Heart Failure (Greenwich, Conn.)
|May 25, 2002
Abstract:
Resistant hypertension affects a minority of treated hypertensive patients, yet the resulting target organ damage causes disproportionate morbidity and increased risk of cardiovascular events. The clinical features and efforts to adjust drug treatment in a resistant hypertensive patient are described. As demonstrated, serial hemodynamic measurements using thoracic bioimpedance may provide a rationale for selection of effective combination antihypertensive therapy. (c)2000 by CHF, Inc.