History of diabetic nephropathy : a personal account / Eberhard Ritz -- Chronic kidney disease in diabetes : a worldwide endemic / Andrea Icks and Michael Koch -- Genetic risk factors for diabetic nephropathy / Carsten A. Böger and Peter R. Mertens -- Pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy / Ivonne Loeffler -- Histology of human diabetic nephropathy / Kerstin Amann and Christoph Daniel -- Natural history and diagnosis of diabetic kidney disease / Bethany Karl and Kumar Sharma -- Cardiovascular disease in diabetic nephropathy : pathophysiology and treatment / Martin Busch -- Statin therapy in patients with diabetic nephropathy / Christoph Wanner -- Diabetes mellitus, bone, and kidney / Thomas Neumann and Gabriele Lehmann -- Diabetes, pregnancy, and the kidney / Helmut Kleinwechter, Ute Schäfer-Graf -- Diabetic nephropathy in children / Kai D. Nüsken and Jörg Dötsch -- Diabetes, the kidney, and retinopathy / Hans-Peter Hammes -- Reducing progression of diabetic nephropathy by antihyperglycemic treatment / Christoph Hasslacher -- Dosage of antihyperglycemic drugs in patients with renal insufficiency / Alexander Sämann and Ulrich A. Müller -- Reducing progression of diabetic nephropathy by antihypertensive treatment / Anita Hansen, Ivo Quack and Lars Christian Rump -- Treatment of the patient with endstage diabetic nephropathy / Muriel Ghosn and Fuad N. Ziyadeh -- Combined pancreas and kidney transplantation or kidney alone transplantation for patients with diabetic nephropathy / Hermann J. Kissler, Christiane Rüster, Utz Settmacher