Vascular Complications of Diabetes (eBook)

Richard Donnelly MD PhD FRCP FRACP is Professor of Vascular Medicine at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Physician at the J. O'Neil Diabetic Centre, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby, UK

CONTENTS.

List of contributors.

Preface.

SECTION 1. MICRO- AND MACROVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS OF
DIABETES.

Chatper 1. The burden of diabetes complications.

Chapter 2. Risk factors.

Chapter 3. Diabetic nephropathy.

Chapter 4. Coronary heart disease and diabetes.

Chapter 5. Diabetes and cerebrovascular disease.

Chapter 6. Erectile dysfunction.

Chapter 7. Evidence0based interventions to prevent or retard
vascular complications.

SECTION 2. DIABETIC RETINOPATHY AND ASSOCIATED OPHTHALMIC
DISORDERS.

Chapter 8. Diabetic retinpathy: epidemiology and risk
factors.

Chapter 9. Classification and diagnosis of diabetic
retinopathy.

Chapter 10. Pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy.

Chapter 11. Diabetic maculopathy.

Chapter 12. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Chapter 13. Non-retinal diabetic ocular complications.

Chapter 14. Pictorial case studies.

SECTION 3. DIABETIC NEUROPATHY.

Chapter 15. Diabetic neuropathy: epidemiology and risk
factors.

Chapter 16. Classification and diagnosis of diabetic
neuropathy.

Chapter 17. Pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy.

Chapter 18. Treatment of diabetic neuropathy.

SECTION 4. PATHOGENESIS OF GLYCAEMIC VASCULAR
DYSFUNCTION.

Chapter 19. Pathophysiological mechanisms.

Chapter 20. Protein kinase C.

Chapter 21. Protein kinase C activation and vascular
permeability.

Chapter 22. Harmful effects of protein kinase C activation in
cardiovascular and renal tissues.

Chapter 23. Therapeutic potential for isoform-selective protein
kinase C inhibitors.

Index