Acute and chronic complications of diabetes. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors Leonid Poretsky, Emilia Pauline Liao.
• Editors: Poretsky, Leonid, 1954-; Liao, Emilia Pauline
• Contents: Front Cover; Acute and Chronic Complications of Diabetes; Copyright; Contributors; Endocrinology And Metabolism Clinics Of North America; Foreword; Preface; Hypoglycemia; Key points; General considerations; Epidemiology of hypoglycemia; Risk factors for hypoglycemia; Hypoglycemia counterregulation; Normal Hypoglycemia Counterregulation and Hypoglycemia Awareness; Hypoglycemia Counterregulation and Hypoglycemia Awareness in Type 1 Diabetes; Hypoglycemia Counterregulation and Hypoglycemia Awareness in Type 2 Diabetes; Manifestations of hypoglycemia; Complications of hypoglycemia. Management of hypoglycemiaTreatment; Prevention of Recurrences; Conventional measures; Pancreas/islet transplantation; References; Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State; Key points; Background and epidemiology; Definition and diagnosis; Precipitating factors; Pathogenesis; Hormones; Lipid; Ketogenesis; Hyperosmolar; Clinical presentation; Initial evaluation; Serum Glucose; Serum Sodium; Serum Potassium; Serum Phosphate; Serum Bicarbonate; Serum Ketones; Anion Gap; Arterial Blood; Serum Osmolality; Leukocytosis; Amylase and Lipase; Treatment; Fluid Replacement; Potassium. AGEs as Initiators of Insulin Resistance and T2DBrain; Kidney; AGE metabolism; AGE renal toxicity (animal studies); AGE removal (clinical studies); AGEs and the induction diabetic kidney disease; AGE toxicity in hemodialysis patients; Toxicity of AGEs in patients on peritoneal dialysis; Mortality in patients with T2D admitted to the intensive case unit and the effects of the levels of AGEs and DKD on outcome ... ; AGEs in Cardiovascular Disease; General comments; Estrogen in men with diabetes and the risk of peripheral vascular disease; Liver; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Estrogen and liver diseaseAGEs at Different Chronologic Ages; Gestation and infants; Adults; Drugs that influence AGEs; General Comments; Oral Drugs Directly Influencing the Degradation of AGEs; Metformin; Aminoguanidine; Pyridoxamine; Benfotiamine; Alagebrium; References; Diabetic Retinopathy; Key points; Introduction; Epidemiology; Pathogenesis; Diagnosis and classification; NPDR; Mild NPDR; Moderate NPDR; Severe NPDR; Very severe NPDR; PDR; Macular Edema; CSME; Diagnostic modalities for evaluation of retinopathy; Current treatment; Emerging treatments.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, pages 657-1014), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 616.5; Diabetes -- Complications; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Diabetes -- Complications; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323260954; 0323260950; 1336247789; 9781336247789
• Related ISBNs: 9780323260947; 0323260942
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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