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Vascular complications of diabetes : current issues in pathogenesis and treatment /
Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions, and the cardiovascular complications of diabetes are life-threatening and disabling. This book is unique in providing a simple explanation of the biochemical role of PKC in diabetes complications, which allows clinicians to understand why PKC inhibitors (in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2007.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The public health impact of the diabetes epidemic
- Risk factors
- Diabetic nephropathy
- Coronary heart disease and diabetes
- Diabetes and cerebrovascular disease
- Erectile dysfunction
- Evidence-based interventions to prevent or retard vascular complications
- Classification and clinical features of neuropathy
- Pathophysiology of diabetic neuropathy
- Epidemiology and natural history of DPN
- Detection/screening/assessment
- Foot ulceration and Charcot arthropathy
- Treatment options
- Management guidelines for diabetic peripheral neuropathy and foot ulceration
- Diabetic retinopathy : epidemiology and risk factors
- Classification and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy
- Diabetic maculopathy
- Proliferative diabetic retinopathy
- Non-retinal diabetic ocular complications
- Pathophysiology and potential targets for therapeutic intervention
- Protein kinase C
- PKC activation and vascular permeability
- Role of protein kinase C activation in cardiovascular and renal complications of diabetes
- Experimental pharmacology using isoform-selective protein kinase C inhibitors
- Clinical trials with ruboxistaurin.