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Introduction Hypertension (HTN) is the single most important and widespread cardiovascular diagnosis in the developed world and, as such, an enormous public health problem. With the recent change in guidelines reducing the systolic blood pressure (BP)–lowering target from 140 to…

Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians The pericardium is involved in a wide variety of diseases which result in some of the classic physical, imaging, and hemodynamic findings in cardiology. In this chapter we discuss…