This book is intended to be an in-depth and up-to-date guide to the various aspects of the association between blood pressure disorders and acute/chronic renal diseases. In addition, this work includes discussion of topics rarely considered and or acknowledged by in the clinical practice, namely hypertension in different kidney diseases, pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying blood pressure elevation in renal disorders, cardiorenal associations and therapeutic approaches in hypertensive renal disorders.



This book is divided in sections and chapters to cover various phenotypes of renal hypertension and their interactions to kidney disease.