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Pulse Waves How Vascular Hemodynamics Affects Blood Pressure Second Edition
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Pulse Waves
Paolo Salvi
Pulse Waves How Vascular Hemodynamics Affects Blood Pressure Second Edition
Paolo Salvi Department of Cardiovascular, Neural and Metabolic Sciences Istituto Auxologico Italiano Milan, Italy Translated by Nicoletta Abbondanza
ISBN 978-3-319-40499-8 ISBN 978-3-319-40501-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40501-8
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To my wife Marna I thank my Lord for this wonderful gift
Foreword by Alberto Zanchetti
I am delighted to introduce this new updated edition of Paolo Salvi’s volume on Pulse Waves, brilliantly summarizing the hemodynamics of hypertension and its implications for treatment. The publication of the second edition at a relatively short distance from the first one witnessed the success of the work and its timely appearance. The founding fathers of cardiovascular physiology were well aware of the complexity of the hemodynamic mechanisms underlying arterial blood pressure, and the models they developed tried to keep all known mechanisms under consideration. During the second half of the twentieth century, when blood pressure became an object of increasing clinical interest and a target for therapeutic intervention, the operational model being used was simplified and reduced to a pump working against a peripheral vascular resistance. Although certainly oversimplified, it cannot be denied that this model helped in achieving one of the greatest medical successes of the past century, that is the ability to effectively lower the most important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure. With increasing attention being paid nowadays to hypertension in the elderly,
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