Vascular complications of diabetes [electronic resource] : current issues in pathogenesis and treatment / editor, Richard Donnelly ; associate editor, Edward Horton.
Publication details: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: vi, 234 p. : illISBN:- 1405127856 (alk. paper)
- 9781405127851 (alk. paper)
- 616.1/3 22
- RC700.D5 V375 2005eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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