Diabetes and Kidney Disease

Practical and accessible, chapters contain text features such as case histories, potential pitfall boxes, key points, management algorithms, and useful weblinks to fully engage the reader and provide expert guidance to help clinicians best manage their patients.  In addition, all relevant international society guidelines and recommendations are fully included.

List of Contributors, xxx

Preface, xxx

Part I: Introduction and Pathophysiology

1 History of diabetic nephropathy: a personal account 
Eberhard Ritz

2 Chronic kidney disease in diabetes: A worldwide endemie?!
Andrea Icks and Michael Koch

3 Genetic risk factors for diabetic nephropathy 
Carsten A. Böger and Peter R. Mertens

4 Pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy 
Ivonne Loeffler

5 Histology of human diabetic nephropathy 
Kerstin Amann and Christoph Daniel

6 Natural History and Diagnosis of Diabetic Kidney Disease 
Bethany Karl and Kumar Sharma

Part II: Special Situations, Risk factors and Complications

7 Cardiovascular disease in diabetic nephropathy pathophysiology and treatment
Martin Busch

8 Statin therapy in patients with diabetic nephropathy 
Christoph Wanner

9 Diabetes Mellitus, Bone and Kidney 
Thomas Neumann and Gabriele Lehmann

10 Diabetes, pregnancy and the kidney
Helmut Kleinwechter, Ute Schäfer-Graf

11 Diabetic nephropathy in children 
Kai D Nüsken and Jörg Dötsch

12 Diabetes, the kidney, and retinopathy 
Hans-Peter Hammes

Part III: Prevention and Therapy

13 Reducing progression of diabetic nephropathy by antihyperglycemic treatment 
Christoph Hasslacher

14 Dosage of antihyperglycemic drugs in patients with renal insufficiency
Alexander Sämann and Ulrich A. Müller

15 Reducing progression of diabetic nephropathy by antihypertensive treatment  
Anita Hansen, Ivo Quack and Lars Christian Rump

16 Treatment of the patient with endstage diabetic nephropathy 
Muriel Ghosn,  and Fuad N Ziyadeh

17 Combined pancreas and kidney transplantation or kidney alone transplantation for patients with diabetic nephropathy 
Hermann J. Kissler, Christiane Rüster, Utz Settmacher

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