Case Studies in Diabetes

ISBN-13: 9781841840321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 224 str.

John D. Betteridge; D. John Betteridge; Betteridge John Betteridge

Opis

In this work, the editor has chosen 50 diabetolgists to contribute a case which has had an effect on their clinical practice. Both Types 1 and 2 diabetes are included, along with other forms of diabetes.

Spis treści

Type 1 Diabetes1. A Classical Case of New Diabetes Presenting with Diabetic Ketoacidosis? 2. Mixed Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolarity 3. Recurrent Vomiting and Diabetic Ketoacidosis in a Type 1 Diabetic Female 4. Maintaining Tight Glycaemic Control During Intermittent High Dose Prednisolone Administration During Type 1 Diabetic Pregnancy 5. Postpartum Graves' Disease in a Type 1 Diabetic Woman 6. A History of Survival in a Natural Survivor 7. Type 1 Diabetes in Adolescents is Still a Dramatic Disease 8. Type 1.5 Diabetes 9. Evaluating the Degree of Diabetes Control 10. Allergy to Human Insulin 11. A Case of Type 1 Diabetes Treated with CSII with Progressive Decrease of Insulin Requirement and Severe Hypoglycaemic Episodes 12. Recurrent Hypoglycaemia in a Young Woman with Type 1 Diabetes 13. Frequent Hypoglycaemia in a Boy with Type 1 Diabetes 14. Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes?Type 2 Diabetes15. From Hyperinsulinaemia in Infancy to Diabetes in Adulthood 16. Severe Obesity and Diabetes in Youth 17. How the Eyes Habituate to the Changing Appearance of the Patient: the Advantage of a Fresh Look 18. A Large Dose of Bedtime Insulin 19. Treatment of Insulin Resistance in Type 2 Diabetes 20. A Case of Partial Lipodystrophy 21. Severe Insulin Resistance 22. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Chronic Complications28. A Case of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Multiple Risk Factors for IHD and Multiple Complications 1 29. A Poorly Controlled Diabetic Patient with Many Complications 30. Atypical Chest Pain in a Young Diabetic Woman: the Value of Media Education 31. High Blood Pressure with Complications 32. A Touch of Diabetes 33. Diabetes and Microalbuminuria: a Multi-system Disease 34. Diabetes and Dysbetalipoproteinaemia 35. Type 2 Diabetes Presenting with an Itchy Rash 36. Patient with Combined Hyperlipidaemia 37. Severe Hypertriglyceridaemia in Pregnancy Presenting as Pancreatitis 38. A Diagnosis of Cellulitis in a Neuroischaemic Foot 39. Poor Diabetic Control, Weight Loss and Pain

O autorze

[BSc MB BS PhD MD FRCP] - Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Division of Medicine