Peter J Watkins, Stephanie A Amiel, Simon L Howell, Eileen Turner

Diabetes and Its Management

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Produktbeschreibung

Diabetes and its Management, Sixth Edition, continues to provide a practical clinical guide to the management of patients with diabetes. The author team has been expanded and now also includes a Nurse Practitioner specialising in diabetes to provide the nursing perspective. It is a concise manual that distils the essential recent developments into practical advice. Diabetes and its Management is * intended for doctors and all healthcare professionals who care for patients with diabetes * valuable for those studing for the MRCP * a compact, but complete, practical manual which also gives an excellent grounding in the underlying disease processes * divided into sections on pathogenesis, clinical management, diabetic complications and all aspects of diabetic care * updated and rewritten to include all the recent advances in diabetes

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 6th Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 186mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781405107259
• ISBN-10: 1405107251
• Artikelnr.: 21497988

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Watkins is the author of Diabetes and Its Management, 6th Edition, published by Wiley. Stephanie Anne Amiel, FRCP is a British physician and academic, specialising in type 1 diabetes. Since 1995, she has been the R. D. Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine at King's College London and a consultant at King's College Hospital.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the sixth edition vii
Preface to the first edition ix
Acknowledgements xi
Section 1: Basic Principles of Diabetes and its Biochemistry
1 Diagnosis and classification 3
2 Epidemiology of diabetes 16
3 Synthesis secretion and actions of insulin 23
4 Metabolic changes in diabetes: a summary 33
5 Aetiology and genetics 38
Section 2: Clinical Presentation and Treatment
6 Clinical features of diabetes 49
7 Management of Type 2 diabetes 55
8 Management of Type 1 diabetes mellitus 66
9 Hypoglycaemia 79
10 Diabetic hyperglycaemic emergencies 88
11 Management of diabetes during surgery and other illnesses 95
Section 3: Special Situations
12 Pregnancy and diabetes 107
13 Diabetes in children 116
Section 4: Diabetic Complications
14 An overview of microvascular complications 125
15 Diabetes and the kidney 132
16 Diabetic eye disease 144
17 Diabetic neuropathies 152
18 The diabetic foot 166
19 Cardiovascular disease 181
20 Hypertension 190
Section 5: Diabetic Care
21 Living with diabetes 197
22 Organization of care 203
Appendices 213
Index 219