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Low blood pressure : its causes and significance /
Low Blood Pressure: Its Causes and Significance focuses on the important and interesting aspects of low arterial pressure. This book discusses the vasomotor control of arterial pressure; significance of low arterial pressure; autonomic-endocrine influences; and symptomatology of acquired hypopiesis....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
William Heinemann,
1928.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Low Blood Pressure: Its Causes and Significance; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; CHAPTER I. PHYSIOLOGICAL BLOOD PRESSURE; General Considerations; Special Considerations; Definition of Arterial Pressure as a Whole; Circulatory Factors in Arterial Pressure; The Measure of Circulatory Efficiency; Vasomotor Control of Arterial Pressure; Sphygmomanometry; Methods of Estimation of Arterial Pressure; Meaning and Value of the Minimal (Diastolic) Pressure; Meaning and Value of the Maximal (Systolic) Pressure; The Complete Arterial Pressure Picture
- CHAPTER II. Low ARTERIAL PRESSUREDefinitions; Hypotension; Significance of Low Arterial Pressure; The Upper (Systolic) Limit of Low Arterial Pressure; The Lower (Diastolic) Limit of Low Arterial Pressure; Range of Low Arterial Pressures; Low Differential (Pulse) Pressure; The Differential Pressure as an Index of Functional Efficiency; Frequency of Incidence of Low Arterial Pressure; Classification of Low Arterial Pressure; CHAPTER III. AETIOLOGY OF LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE; General Considerations; The Author's Views on the /Etiology of Low Arterial Pressure
- The Author's Biological Law of Low Arterial PressureAutonomic-Endocrine Influences; Biochemical Influences; Views of other Writers; The Hyposthenic Type of Bodily Configuration; CHAPTER IV. SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF LOW ABTEEIAL PRESSURE; 1� Subjective Symptoms; 2� Physical Signs; CHAPTER V. AUTONOMIC-ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE ; 1. The Influence of the Autonomic (Vegetative) Nervous System on Low Arterial Pressure; 2. Influence of the Endocrine System on Low Arterial Pressure; CHAPTER VI. CIRCULATORY FACTORS IN PRODUCTION OF LOW BLOOD PRESSURE; I. The Heart; II. The Arteries
- III. The Arterioles and CapillariesIV. The Veins; V� The Blood; CHAPTER VII. LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE EST THE ABSENCE OF ORGANIC DISEASE; A. Psychical Low Arterial Pressure; B. Physical Low Arterial Pressure; CHAPTER VIII. LOW ARTERIAL PBESSUBE CONSEQUENT UPON TRAUMA, INFECTION AND OTHER AGENCIES; I. TEMPORARY; II. CONGENITAL AND PBESISTENT; III. ACQUIRED AND PERSISTENT; CHAPTER IX. LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE IN THE PRESENCE OP ACUTE ORGANIC DISEASE; In Association with Acute Specific Infectious Diseases