Understand Resistant Hypertension with On-line Education

Understand Resistant Hypertension with On-line Education. On this MedNet21 CME Webcast, we’re going to hear more about resistant hypertension: what some of the causes are, what the pharmacologic approach is, and how a new endovascular procedure might hold the promise of improved blood pressure control for these patients in the future.  Let me welcome today’s guests in the studio with Dr. Jim Allen.  First, we have from the Division of Nephrology, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Dr. Christopher Valentine. Joining him from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and the Medical Director of the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital at the Wexner Medical Center, Dr. Ernest Mazzaferri.

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What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: REVIEW secondary causes of hypertension; Discuss therapy of resistant hypertension; and RECOGNIZE the Role of Sympathetic N.S. in HTN.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Epidemiology of resistant hypertension
• Consequences of inadequately treated hypertension
• The future of catheter-based renal denervation
• Patient selection for renal denervation
• An On-line Webcast about Secondary Causes of Hypertension
• Lab testing of patients with resistant hypertension

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Learn About Secondary Causes of Hypertension

Learn about Secondary Causes of Hypertension during this CME webcast.  Essential hypertension is incredibly common and most of the conditions that we’re going to review today on MedNet21 are relatively uncommon so you don’t think about them right away.  Here with Dr. Jim Allen in the studio is Dr. Stephen Koesters.  Dr. Koesters is an Assistant Professor of both internal medicine and pediatrics. Also joining the webcast, we have nephrologist and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dr. Christopher Valentine.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: Review Common Causes of Secondary Hypertension; Develop treatment strategies for resistant hypertension; Recognize common risk factors for elevated blood pressure readings; Discuss systemic and thorough approach to the evaluation of the patient with hypertension; and Identify characteristics of patients with secondary or resistant hypertension.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Incidence of secondary causes of hypertension
• Most common causes of secondary hypertension
• Sign and symptoms that prompt sleep studies
• Non-compliance and refractory hypertension
• 24-hour blood pressure monitors
• Imaging modality of choice for suspected renal artery stenosis
• The incidental adrenal adenoma in hypertensive patients
• Orthostatic hypotension in the patient with refractory hypertension
• Estrogens and refractory hypertension

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.