a. How to assess organ damage
b. Clinical significance of organ damage
c. Sites/types of organ damage

  I.Heart:

1. Left ventricular hypertrophy

        http://www.eshonline.org/education/newsletter.htm
        Assessment of Preclinical Target Organ Damage in Hypertension: Left Ventricular Hypertrophy; (E. Agabiti Rosei)
        Newsletter no 10

2. Systolic/diastolic dysfunction
3. Ischemic heart disease

        http://www.eshonline.org/education/newsletter.htm
        Hypertension and Coronary Heart Disease; (J.P. Baguet, J.M. Mallion); Revised version - 2005
        Newsletter 14

4. Cardiac arrhythmias

http://www.eshonline.org/education/congresses/esh_2005/teaching_seminars.asp
Saturday, June 18; 2005
Diagnosis and management of cardiac arrhythmias  Prof. A. Manolis

http://www.eshonline.org/education/newsletter.htm
Hypertension and Arrhythmia; J.P. Baguet, S. Erdineb, J.M. Mallion)
Newsletter no 24

5. Heart failure

  II Brain:

1. Transient ischemic attacks
2. Ischemic/hemorrhagic stroke
   http://www.eshonline.org/education/archivio/esh2004/teaching_2004.htm
   Mechanisms, prevention and management of stroke in hypertension
   Blood pressure in acute stroke; Philip Bath
3. Silent infarctions
4. Cognitive dysfunction/dementia

  III. Retinal vessels 
  IV. Large and small arteries:

   http://www.eshonline.org/education/congresses/2006/esh/teaching_seminars.asp
   A. Heagerty, UK; The roll of small arteries in hypertensive target organ damage

1. Endothelial dysfunction
2. Wall thickening/plaques
   http://www.eshonline.org/education/newsletter.htm
   Assessment of Preclinical Target Organ Damage in Hypertension: Carotid Intima-media Thickness and Plaque; (E. Agabiti Rosei)
   Newsletter no 11
3. Arterial stiffening
   http://www.eshonline.org/education/congresses/2006/esh/teaching_seminars.   asp#javascript();
   Damiano Rizzoni, IT Early resistance artery changes in essential hypertension
4. Arteriolar remodelling
5. Microcirculation

  V. Kidney

1. Microalbuminuria
   http://www.eshonline.org/education/congresses/2006/esh/teaching_seminars.asp#javascript();
   Tuesday, June 14 TEACHING SEMINAR 4; 2006
   
   http://www.eshonline.org/education/newsletter.htm
   Microalbuminuria in Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus; (J. Redon, J.L. Rodicio)
   Newsletter no 16
2. Proteinuria
3. Importance of marked/modest renal damage
   http://www.eshonline.org/education/congresses/esh_2005/teaching_seminars.asp
   Saturday, June 18; 2005
   Mild to severe renal damage. Implication for cardiovascular risk and treatment; Prof. A. Wiecek

d.  Correlations between different organ damages
e.  New techniques for assessing organ damage