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Foreword
List of Contributors
1 Diabetes in the United States: epidemiology, scope and impact 1
2 Stages of diabetic nephropathy 13
3 Mesangial expansion in diabetic nephropathy: functional and genetic considerations 19
4 Nephropathy in NIDDM - an update 27
5 Clinical imperatives in diabetic nephropathy: the devastating impact of comorbidity 41
6 Dialysis in diabetic patients: three decades of experience, from 1964 to 1997 67
7 Hemodialysis in patients with diabetes mellitus 79
8 Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in 224 diabetics with end stage renal disease: evidence of improved survival over the past 10 years 89
9 The natural history and classification of diabetic retinopathy 117
10 Long-term visual outcome of diabetic patients treated with panretinal photocoagulation 151
11 A New hypothesis on mechanisms of retinal vascular permeability in diabetes 169
12 Angiogenesis in diabetic retinopathy: a history of accomplishment, discovery and promise 181
13 Surgical management of proliferative diabetic retinopathy 197
14 Heart disease in patients with the diabetic renal-retinal syndrome: clinical considerations 211
15 NO and diabetic complications 223
16 AGE and the kidney: an update 233
17 Xenotransplantation of encapsulated porcine islets 243
18 Generation of non-immunogenic islet cells using genetic engineering 257
19 Insulin-independence for > 10 years in 32 pancreas transplant recipients from a historical era 267
20 Giving up: discontinuation of dialysis 269
Index 279