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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. The parasympathetic or extended vagus system; arteriosclerosis of large vessels; psychical low arterial pressure; and agents causing vascular dilatation are also deliberated. This text likewise covers the exanthematous infections of doubtful etiology; atrophic cirrhosis of the liver; occasional difficulties in diagnosis; and control of low arterial pressure. This publication is intended for medical practitioners and clinicians aiming to acquire knowledge of low arterial pressure and its associations.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Low Blood Pressure: Its Causes and Significance
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I. PHYSIOLOGICAL BLOOD PRESSURE
- CHAPTER II. Low ARTERIAL PRESSURE
- CHAPTER III. AETIOLOGY OF LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE
- CHAPTER IV. SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF LOW ABTEEIAL PRESSURE
- CHAPTER V. AUTONOMIC-ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE
- CHAPTER VI. CIRCULATORY FACTORS IN PRODUCTION OF LOW BLOOD PRESSURE
- CHAPTER VII. LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE EST THE ABSENCE OF ORGANIC DISEASE
- CHAPTER VIII. LOW ARTERIAL PBESSUBE CONSEQUENT UPON TRAUMA, INFECTION AND OTHER AGENCIES
- CHAPTER IX. LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE IN THE PRESENCE OP ACUTE ORGANIC DISEASE
- CHAPTER Χ. LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRONIC ORGANIC DISEASE ACQUIRED AND PERSISTENT
- CHAPTER XI. DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE
- CHAPTER XII. CONTROL OF LOW ARTERIAL PRESSURE
- REFERENCES
- INDEX