The Diabetic Foot: Strategies for Treatment and Prevention of Ulcerations John M. Giurini Diabetic foot disease affects nearly 2 million patients with diabetes in the United States annually (1). This…
Treatment of Diabetes in the Hospitalized Patient Howard A. Wolpert Diabetes-related hospitalizations in the United States totaled 13.9 million days in 1997 (1). The advances made in anesthesia and perioperative…
Effects of Diabetes Mellitus on the Digestive System Hiroshi Mashimo Roger J. May† Raj K. Goyal †Deceased In 1936, Bargen (1) first described diarrhea and steatorrhea as complications of diabetes….
Joint and Bone Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus M. Elaine Husni Susan F. Kroop Lee S. Simon As modern therapeutics have helped decrease the mortality and morbidity of diabetes mellitus, increased…
Cutaneous Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus Mark H. Lowitt Jeffrey S. Dover Patients with diabetes mellitus commonly suffer from a wide variety of cutaneous maladies. Estimates of the frequency of skin…
Diabetes and Pregnancy Florence M. Brown Allison B. Goldfine Pregnancy may be complicated by diabetes in two distinct forms: gestational and pregestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes typically is diagnosed during the…
Infection and Diabetes Deborah E. Sentochnik George Eliopoulos It is commonly believed that the incidence of infection is higher in persons with diabetes mellitus and that such infections result in…
Erectile Dysfunction and Diabetes Ricardo Munarriz Abdulmaged Traish Irwin Goldstein Male sexual dysfunctions are classified into dysfunctions of libido, problems with emission/ejaculation/orgasm, impotence, and priapism. Erectile dysfunction (ED) or impotence…
Diabetes Mellitus and Heart Disease Michael T. Johnstone Richard Nesto Heart disease was thought to be associated with diabetes as early as 1883, when Vergeley recommended testing the urine of…
Hypertension in Diabetes Mellitus Samy I. McFarlane Jonathan Castro Dmitri Kirpichnikov James R. Sowers Hypertension is a very common comorbid condition in diabetes and accounts for up to 85% of…
