Vascular complications of diabetes : current issues in pathogenesis and treatment / / editor, Richard Donnelly ; associate editor, Edward Horton.

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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:2nd ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:vi, 234 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • The public health impact of the diabetes epidemic
  • Risk factors
  • Diabetic nephropathy
  • Coronary heart disease and diabetes
  • Diabetes and cerebrovascular disease
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Evidence-based interventions to prevent or retard vascular complications
  • Classification and clinical features of neuropathy
  • Pathophsiology [sic] of diabetic neuropathy
  • Epidemiology and natural history of DPN
  • Detections/screenings/assessment
  • Foot ulceration and charcot arthropathy
  • Treatment options
  • Management guidelines for diabetic peripheral neuropathy and foot ulceration
  • Diabetic retinopathy: epidemiology and risk factors
  • Classification and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy
  • Diabetic maculopathy
  • Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
  • Non-retinal diabetic ocular complications
  • Pathophysiology & potential targets for therapeutic intervention
  • Protein kinase C
  • PKC activation & vascular permeability
  • Role of PKC activation in cardiovascular and renal complications of diabetes
  • Experimental pharmacology using isoform-selective PKC inhibitors
  • Clinical trials with ruboxistaurin.