Therapies for Resistant Hypertension
Therapies for Resistance Hypertension
Resistant hypertension is defined as blood pressure that remains above goal in spite of the concurrent use of 3 antihypertensive agents of different classes. This section talks about the Resistance Hypertension causes, diagnostics, treatments and controls ideally, one of the 3 agents should be a diuretic and all agents should be prescribed at optimal dose amounts. arbitrary in regard to the number of medications required, resistant hypertension is thus defined in order to identify patients who are at high risk of having reversible causes of hypertension and/or patients who, because of persistently high blood pressure levels, may benefit from special diagnostic and therapeutic considerations
- Diagnosis and Management of Resistant Hypertension
- Treatment of Resistant and Refractory Hypertension: Pharmacological Treatment & Nonpharmacological Therapies
- Use of Spironolactone as the Fourth Agent for Treating RHTN
- Treatment of Secondary Causes of Hypertension: Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Renal Artery Stenosis etc.