Clinical Dilemmas In Diabetes Adrian Vella by Adrian Vella 9781405169288, 9781444340280, 1405169281, 144434028X instant download after payment.

This valuable guide provides assistance in managing the life-long treatment of diabetes and the complications that often develop in patients. Clinical Dilemmas in Diabetes guides the medical team in their decision-making, particularly when there are conflicts in the treatment for the disease and the complications.

Part of the Clinical Dilemmas series, the well-focused chapter structure allows for quick retrieval of information, and each opens with a “Learning Points” box to aid easy assimilation of the main issues. With a leading team of contributors and editors, Professor Robert A. Rizza is the immediate Past-President of the American Diabetes Association.

This book is perfect for use on the wards and clinics as well as for self-study by diabetologists, diabetes specialist nurses, endocrinologists, GPs and cardiologists.Content:
Chapter 1 Is Prediabetes a Risk Factor or is it a Disease? (pages 1–10): Kalpana Muthusamy and Adrian Vella
Chapter 2 Early Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes: Useful or a Phyrrhic Victory? (pages 11–21): Chiara Guglielmi and Paolo Pozzilli
Chapter 3 How should Secondary Causes of Diabetes be Excluded? (pages 22–33): Aonghus O'Loughlin and Sean F. Dinneen
Chapter 4 Screening Patients with Prediabetes and Diabetes for Cardiovascular Disease (pages 34–40): Deepika S. Reddy and Vivian Fonseca
Chapter 5 What is the Role of Self?Monitoring in Diabetes? Is there a Role for Postprandial Glucose Monitoring? How does Continuous Glucose Monitoring Integrate into Clinical Practice? (pages 41–55): Rami Almokayyad and Robert Cuddihy
Chapter 6 The Optimal Diet for Diabetes is? (pages 56–63): Maria L. Collazo?Clavell
Chapter 7 How to Determine when to Pursue Lifestyle Change Alone Versus Pharmacotherapy at Diagnosis? (pages 64–70): Galina Smushkin and F. John Service
Chapter 8 Insulin Sensitizers Versus Secretagogues as First?Line Therapy for Diabetes: Rationale for Clinical Choice (pages 71–78): Robert J. Richards, L. Yvonne Melendez?Ramirez and William T. Cefalu
Chapter 9 Are Insulin Sensitizers Useful Additions to Insulin Therapy? (pages 79–90): John W. Richard and Philip Raskin
Chapter 10 Is there a Role for Incretin?Based Therapy in Combination with Insulin? (pages 91–95): Matheni Sathananthan and Adrian Vella
Chapter 11 HbA1c: Is it the Most Important Therapeutic Target in outPatient Management of Diabetes? (pages 96–104): Steven A. Smith
Chapter 12 Primary Therapy for Obesity as the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes (pages 105–115): Manpreet S. Mundi and Michael D. Jensen
Chapter 13 Are Statins the Optimal Therapy for Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Diabetes? Are Triglycerides an Important Independent Risk Factor for Diabetes? (pages 116–126): Michael O'Reilly and Timothy O'Brien
Chapter 14 The Role of Bariatric Surgery in Obese Patients with Diabetes: Primary or Rescue Therapy? (pages 127–133): Praveena Gandikota and Blandine Laferr‘ere
Chapter 15 Hyperglycemia should be Avoided in Critical Illness and the Postoperative Period (pages 134–144): Kalpana Muthusamy and John M. Miles
Chapter 16 Is there an Optimal Revascularization Strategy in Diabetic Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease? (pages 145–152): Stephen H. Mckellar, Morgan L. Brown and Robert L. Frye