Diabetes and Kidney Disease

Informationen zum Autor Gunter Wolf is Professor and Chairman, Department for Internal Medicine III (Nephrology, Rheumatology, Osteology, Endocrinology and Diabetology) at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Professor Wolf is well known both in Europe and America, and is involved in many editorial boards and journals such as Kidney International, Journal American Society of Nephrology, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Hypertension and the renal section of the American Journal of Physiology. Professor Wolf is also the author of Obesity and the Kidney, Karger, 2006. Klappentext Diabetes and the Kidney provides endocrinologists and nephrologists of all levels with expert clinical diagnosis and management guidance for this extremely common diabetic complication.Practical and accessible, chapters contain text features such as case histories, potential pitfall boxes, key points, management algorithms, and useful weblinks to fully engage the reader and provide expert guidance to help clinicians best manage their patients. In addition, all relevant international society guidelines and recommendations are fully included.After an initial analysis of the epidemiology and pathogenesis of kidney complications in diabetes, it quickly moves on to the following core sections:* Special Situations, Risk factors and Complications - examining diabetic nephropathy in relation to each other diabetic complication, ie cardiovascular disease* Prevention and Therapy - focusing on the most up to date information regarding prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of kidney disease in diabetes.Expertly edited, and with contributions from an experienced international team, Diabetes and Kidney Disease will be the perfect tool to consult when managing diabetic patients with associated kidney problems. Zusammenfassung Diabetes and the Kidney provides endocrinologists and nephrologists of all levels with expert clinical diagnosis and management guidance for this extremely common diabetic complication.Practical and accessible! chapters contain text features such as case histories! potential pitfall boxes! key points! management algorithms! and useful weblinks to fully engage the reader and provide expert guidance to help clinicians best manage their patients. In addition! all relevant international society guidelines and recommendations are fully included.After an initial analysis of the epidemiology and pathogenesis of kidney complications in diabetes! it quickly moves on to the following core sections:* Special Situations! Risk factors and Complications - examining diabetic nephropathy in relation to each other diabetic complication! ie cardiovascular disease* Prevention and Therapy - focusing on the most up to date information regarding prevention! diagnosis! treatment! and management of kidney disease in diabetes.Expertly edited! and with contributions from an experienced international team! Diabetes and Kidney Disease will be the perfect tool to consult when managing diabetic patients with associated kidney problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors vii Preface x Part I Introduction and Pathophysiology 1 History of diabetic nephropathy: a personal account 3 Eberhard Ritz 2 Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease in diabetes 14 Andrea Icks and Michael Koch 3 Genetic risk factors for diabetic nephropathy 29 Carsten A. Böger and Peter R. Mertens 4 Pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy 45 Ivonne Loeffler 5 Histology of human diabetic nephropathy 62 Kerstin Amann and Christoph Daniel 6 Natural history and diagnosis of diabetic kidney disease 70 Bethany Karl and Kumar Sharma Part II Special Situations, Risk Factors and Complications 7 Cardiovascular disease in diabetic nephropathy: pathophysiology and tr...

List of contents

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

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"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)

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Wolf, Gunter (University of Jena Wolf, WOLF GUNTER
• Assisted by: Gunter Wolf (Editor), Gunter (University of Jena Wolf (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2013
• EAN: 9780470675021
• ISBN: 978-0-470-67502-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Diabetes, Medizin, Stoffwechselkrankheiten, NEPHROLOGIE, NIERENERKRANKUNG, Nephrology, Medical Science, metabolic disease