Diabetes and Kidney Disease

List of Contributors, xxx
 
Preface, xxx
 
Part I: Introduction and Pathophysiology
 
1 History of diabetic nephropathy: a personal account
Eberhard Ritz
 
2 Chronic kidney disease in diabetes: A worldwide endemie?!
Andrea Icks and Michael Koch
 
3 Genetic risk factors for diabetic nephropathy
Carsten A. Böger and Peter R. Mertens
 
4 Pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy
Ivonne Loeffler
 
5 Histology of human diabetic nephropathy
Kerstin Amann and Christoph Daniel
 
6 Natural History and Diagnosis of Diabetic Kidney Disease
Bethany Karl and Kumar Sharma
 
Part II: Special Situations, Risk factors and Complications
 
7 Cardiovascular disease in diabetic nephropathy pathophysiology and treatment
Martin Busch
 
8 Statin therapy in patients with diabetic nephropathy
Christoph Wanner
 
9 Diabetes Mellitus, Bone and Kidney
Thomas Neumann and Gabriele Lehmann
 
10 Diabetes, pregnancy and the kidney
Helmut Kleinwechter, Ute Schäfer-Graf
 
11 Diabetic nephropathy in children
Kai D Nüsken and Jörg Dötsch
 
12 Diabetes, the kidney, and retinopathy
Hans-Peter Hammes
 
Part III: Prevention and Therapy
 
13 Reducing progression of diabetic nephropathy by antihyperglycemic treatment
Christoph Hasslacher
 
14 Dosage of antihyperglycemic drugs in patients with renal insufficiency
Alexander Sämann and Ulrich A. Müller
 
15 Reducing progression of diabetic nephropathy by antihypertensive treatment
Anita Hansen, Ivo Quack and Lars Christian Rump
 
16 Treatment of the patient with endstage diabetic nephropathy
Muriel Ghosn, and Fuad N Ziyadeh
 
17 Combined pancreas and kidney transplantation or kidney alone transplantation for patients with diabetic nephropathy
Hermann J. Kissler, Christiane Rüster, Utz Settmacher
 
Index

"It should therefore be essential reading fordiabetes/endocrine and renal speciality trainees. It willalso appeal to both the general practitioner and those lookingafter acutely ill patients." ( Diabetes Update , 1July 2013)