Research Catalog

Title

Endocrine hypertension / edited by Karel Pacak and Graeme Eisenhofer.

Author

International Workshop on Endocrine Hypertension (1st : 2001 : Bethesda, Md.)

Publication

New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pacak, Karel.
• Eisenhofer, Graeme.

Description

viii, 193 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 970

Uniform Title

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 970.

Subjects

• Pheochromocytoma
• Hypertension > etiology
• Adrenal glands > Diseases > Complications > Congresses
• Hypertension > Endocrine aspects > Congresses
• Cushing Syndrome
• Pheochromocytoma > Complications > Congresses
• Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "This volume is the result of a workshop entitled First International Workshop on Endocrine Hypertension sponsored by the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Office of Rare Diseases, National Institutes of Health held on November 16, 2001 in Bethesda, Maryland"--Contents p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pheochromocytoma / by Emmanuel L. Bravo -- New insights into the genetics of familial chromaffin cell tumors / by Christian A. Koch ... [et al.] -- New advances in the biochemical diagnosis of pheochromocytoma / by Jacques W.M. Lenders, Karel Pacak, and Graeme Eisenhofer -- New therapeutic and surgical approaches for sporadic and hereditary pheochromocytoma / by McClellan M. Walther -- Radiopharmaceutical treatment of pheochromocytomas / by James C. Sisson -- Primary aldosteronism / by William F. Young, Jr. -- New genetic insights in familial hyperaldosteronism / by Richard V. Jackson ... [et al.] -- The pathophysiology of aldosterone in the cardiovascular system / by Ricardo Rocha and John W. Funder -- Familial/sporadic glucocorticoid resistance syndrome and hypertension / by Tomoshige Kino ... [et al.] -- Diagnostic tests for Cushing's Syndrome / by Lynnette K. Nieman -- The medical management of Cushing's Syndrome / by Damian Morris and Ashley Grossman -- Association of hypertension and hypokalemia with Cushing's Syndrome caused by ectopic ACTH secretion / by David J. Torpy ... [et al.] -- Hypertension in congenital adrenal hyperplasia and apparent mineralocorticoid excess / by Maria I. New -- The diagnosis and management of endocrine tumors causing hypertension in children / by Kurt D. Newman and Todd Ponsky -- The role of PET in localization of neuroendocrine and adrenocortical tumors / by Barbro Eriksson ... [et al.] -- Diagnostic localization of pheochromocytoma / by Karel Pacak ... [et al.] -- Genomic medicine / by Salvatore Alesci, George P. Chrousos, and Karel Pacak.

ISBN

• 1573314188 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1573314196 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002012378

OCLC

• ocm50339292
• SCSB-4318203

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries