Full Description
The evidence base in diabetes is accumulating rapidly. Prevalence of diabetes is increasing globally, and it is increasingly managed by multi-disciplinary teams working across primary and secondary care. Health professionals working in diabetes need to keep up to date with recent developments. There has also been a boom in both the primary and secondary literature of diabetes. Textbooks and monographs abound which summarize the classic characteristics of the "typical" diabetes patient. Meanwhile the doctor treating individuals needs current information to enable him/ her to solve real life and everyday problems in the field. "Problem Solving in Diabetes" does just that. The authors have drawn on their clinical experience backed up by wide critical reading in the current primary literature to identify 50 problems and their solutions. Each case covers presentation, options, and an evidence-based management plan. This book will be an invaluable reference source to doctors in their everyday practice dealing with the specific problems of individual patients.
Contents
Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Prevention and Diagnosis; 1. Preventing Type 1 Diabetes; 2. Preventing Type 2 diabetes; 3. Managing cardiovascular risk in a patient with a strong family history; 4. Genetic diabetes syndromes (MODY); 5. Impaired glucose tolerance; 6. Type A/B, insulin resistance; Part II: Acute Diabetes; 7. Ketoacidosis; 8. Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State; 9. Recurrent Hypoglycaemia; 10. Diabetes and Acute Myocardial Infarction; 11. Diabetes and Stroke; 12. Diabetes and critical limb ischaemia; 13. Peri-operative management of diabetes; 14. The hot foot; Part III: Managing Diabetes; 15. Insulin Pumps; 16. Type 1 Diabetes and Exercise; 17. Adolescent diabetes; 18. Low carbohydrate and other diets; 19. Type 2 diabetes - treatments that stimulate insulin production; 20. Type 2 diabetes - treatments that improve insulin resistance; 21. Diabetes and enteral feeding; 22. Diabetes in the obese; 23. Diabetes in the elderly; Part IV:Reproductive; 24. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome; 25. Gestational Diabetes; 26. Type 1 Diabetes and Pregnancy; 27. Erectile Dysfunction; 28. Pre-eclampsia; Part V: Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Diabetes; 29. Smoking cessation; 30. Hypertriglyceridaemia; 31. Hyperlipidaemia in type 1 diabetes; 32. Hyperlipidaemia in type 2 diabetes; 33. Aspirin use in diabetes; 34. Hypertension - uncomplicated; 35. Hypertension - hard to control; Part VI: Microvascular Complications; 36. Acute painful neuropathy; 37. Microalbuminuria; 38. ACE inhibitors and renal function; 39. Advancing renal failure; 40. Background retinopathy; 41. Proliferative or pre-proliferative retinopathy; 42. Maculopathy; 43. Autonomic neuropathy; 44. The Charcot foot; Part VII: Macrovascular and Other Complications; 45. Angina; 46. Advances in management of peripheral vascular disease; 47. Renal artery stenosis in diabetes; 48. Foot ulceration; 49. Transient ischaemic attack; Part VIII: Diabetes in Special Groups of Patients; 50. Association between diabetes and respiratory disease; 51. Cystic fibrosis related diabetes; 52. Diabetes in end-stage renal failure; 53. Diabetes and coeliac disease; General index.
