Rev. ed. of: Clinical management of diabetic neuropathy / edited by Aristidis Veves. c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical aspects of diabetic neuropathies -- The epidemiology of diabetic neuropathy -- Genomics of diabetic neuropathy -- Transgenic and gene knockout analysis -- Hyperglycemia-initiated mechanisms in diabetic neuorpathy -- Effectors-sonic hedgehog and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase -- Neuronal and Schwann cell death in diabetic neuropathy -- Metabolic-functional-structural correlations in somatic neuropathies in the spontaneously type 1 and type 2 diabetic BB-rats -- Experimental diabetic autonomic neuropathy -- Spinal cord: structure and function in diabetes -- Diabetic encephalopathy -- Microangiopathy, diabetes -- Pathogenesis of human diabetic neuropathy -- Clinical features of diabetic polyneuropathy -- Micro- and macrovascular disease in diabetic neuropathy -- Clinical diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy -- Punch skin biopsy in diabetic neuropathy -- Aldose reductase inhibitors for the treatment of diabetic neuropathy -- Other therapeutic agents for the treatment of diabetic neuropathy -- Pathophysiology of neuropathic pain -- Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy -- Focal and multifocal diabetic neuropathy -- Hypoglycemia and the autonomic nervous system -- Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy -- Postural hypotension and anhidrosis -- Gastrointestinal syndromes due to diabetes mellitus -- Genitourinary complications -- Management of diabetic foot complications.