Clinical Dilemmas in Diabetes (eBook)

Adrian Vella Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, USA Robert Rizza Professor of Medicine and Division Chair for Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, USA

Contributors.

Preface.

Part I Prediabetes and the Diagnosis of Diabetes.

1 Is prediabetes a risk factor or is it a disease?
(Kalpana Muthusamy and Adrian Vella).

2 Early diagnosis of type 1 diabetes: Useful or a
phyrrhic victory? (Chiara Guglielmi and Paolo Pozzilli).

3 How should secondary causes of diabetes be excluded?
(Aonghus O'Loughlin and Sean F. Dinneen).

4 Screening patients with prediabetes and diabetes for
cardiovascular disease (Deepika S. Reddy and Vivian
Fonseca).

Part II Initial Evaluation and Management of
Diabetes.

5 What is the role of self-monitoring in diabetes? Is
there a role for postprandial glucose monitoring? How does
continuous glucose monitoring integrate into clinical practice?
(Rami Almokayyad and Robert Cuddihy).

6 The optimal diet for diabetes is? (Maria L.
Collazo-Clavell).

7 How to determine when to pursue lifestyle change alone
versus pharmacotherapy at diagnosis? (Galina Smushkin and F.
John Service).

8 Insulin sensitizers versus secretagogues as first-line
therapy for diabetes: Rationale for clinical choice (Robert J.
Richards, L. Yvonne Melendez-Ramirez, and William T.
Cefalu).

9 Are insulin sensitizers useful additions to insulin
therapy? (John W. Richard III and Philip Raskin).

10 Is there a role for incretin-based therapy in
combination with insulin? (Matheni Sathananthan and Adrian
Vella).

11 HbA1c: Is it the most important therapeutic target in
outpatient management of diabetes? (Steven A. Smith).

Part III Management of Associated Risk Factors and
Disease.

12 Primary therapy for obesity as the treatment of type 2
diabetes (Manpreet S. Mundi and Michael D. Jensen).

13 Are statins the optimal therapy for cardiovascular
risk in patients with diabetes? Are triglycerides an important
independent risk factor for diabetes? (Michael O'Reilly and
Timothy O'Brien).

14 The role of bariatric surgery in obese patients with
diabetes: Primary or rescue therapy? (Praveena Gandikota and
Blandine Laferrere).

15 Hyperglycemia should be avoided in critical illness
and the postoperative period (Kalpana Muthusamy and John M.
Miles).

16 Is there an optimal revascularization strategy in
diabetic patients with ischemic heart disease? (Stephen H.
McKellar, Morgan L. Brown, and Robert L. Frye).

Index.

"This is most useful for practitioners who care for many diabetes
patients. It is also useful for students in endocrinology who are
learning the many complicated aspects of diabetes care." (Doody's,
14 October 2011)

"The authors have stuck to a common sense based approach which
is to be congratulated and makes for a good educational tool
to have on one's bookshelf" (Practical Diabetes, June
2011)