An Illustrated Guide for the Diabetic Clinic

Preface; Acknowledgements; Diabetic Eye Disease: Visual Acuity Testing; Diabetic Eye Examination; Diabetic Retinopathy; Background Diabetic Retinopathy; Diabetic Maculopathy; Pre-proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy; Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy; Vitreous Haemorrhage and Pre-Retinal Haemorrhage; Advanced Diabetic Eye Disease; Laser Photocoagulation Therapy for Diabetic Eye Disease; Diabetic Foot Disease: Examination of the diabetic foot; Sensory neuropathy and the diabetic foot: thermal injury; Sensory neuropathy and the diabetic foot: punched-out plantar ulcers; Sensory Neuropathy and the Diabetic Foot: diabetic osteoarthropathy (Charcot foot); Motor Neuropathy in the Diabetic Foot; Autonomic Neuropathy and the Diabetic Foot; Ulceration in a Neuro-Ischaemic Foot; Peripheral Arterial Insufficiency with Gangrene in a Diabetic Foot; Distal Dry Gangrene in an Ischaemic Diabetic Foot; Fungal infection in a Diabetic Foot; Osteomyelitis in a Diabetic Foot; Medial Arterial Calcification; Diabetic Neuropathy: Symmetrical Sensorimeter neuropathy in diabetes mellitus; Cranial Mononeuropathy in diabetes mellitus; Radiculopathy in Diabetic Mellitus; Diabetic amyotrophy; Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other Compression Neuropathies; Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy; Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy; Gustatory Sweats; Diabetes skin and joint disease: Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum; Granuloma annulare; Bullosis diabeticorum; Vitiligo and diabetes mellitus; Palpebral xanthelesmata in diabetes mellitus; Eruptive xanthomata (xanthoma diabeticorum); Cheiroarthropathy and limited joint mobility; Diabetic miscellany: Lipohypertrophy at insulin injection sites; Lipoatrophy at insulin injection sites; Malignant otitis externa (and other severe infections of the head and neck); Osteoporosis in diabetes mellitus (diabetic osteopenia); Disorders associated with secondary diabetes: Cushing's syndrome; Disorders associated with secondary diabetes: Acromegaly; Disorders associated with secondary diabetes: Dystrophia myotonica; Microalbuminuria; Hypertension and its treatment in diabetes; Lipids in diabetes; Insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome; Diabetic clinic records and organisation of diabetes care: The Diabetic Clinic Follow-Up Record; The Diabetic Clinic Check Record - ('Annual Review Sheet'); Diabetic Liaison Service Referral Form; Diet request card and record; Chiropodist Referral Form; Computerised shared care faciliation in diabetes; Local diabetes service advisory groups; Appendices: The Choice of Insulin: by Duration of Action; The Choice of Insulin: by Species of Origin, or Molecular Configuration; The Choice of Insulin: by Brand Names; The Choice of Oral Hypoglycaemic Drugs: Sulphonylurea Drugs; The Choice of Oral Hypoglycaemic Drugs: Biguanides; The Choice of Oral Hypoglycaemic Drugs: Alpha-1-Glucosidase Inhibitors; The choice of oral hypoglycaemic drugs: Thiazolidinediones - insulin action enhancers; Further reading; Index