Alterations in Glucose Homeostasis in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults – What’s New?

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Series: Pediatrics – Laboratory and Clinical Research
BISAC: MED069000

Alterations in Glucose Homeostasis in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults – What’s New? is a book dedicated to the presentation of the latest research on selected issues associated with type 1 diabetes. The authors are well-known professors of Polish medical universities who published numerous scientific papers. Type 1 diabetes is the predominant form of diabetes in young people. It is an autoimmune disease which is particularly aggressive in small children. It is also a pandemic illness characterized by autoimmune, genetic and metabolic abnormalities.

It concerns mainly children and young people, and therefore is a condition the patient will have to struggle with for many years hence. This is why it is extremely important to maintain maximum metabolic compensation to delay the occurrence of chronic complications which are an issue not only for the patient, but also for the society as a whole, as they involve a considerable financial burden. At present, we can observe the development of great advances in the treatment of this form of diabetes. Modern insulin preparations have been introduced as well as improved methods of glucose monitoring and insulin delivery.

New ways to delay the autoimmune processes are being studied and implemented. It is becoming more and more realistic to create the “artificial pancreas”, which should greatly facilitate the achievement of normal metabolic control. In the long term, a possibility may exist to completely cure diabetes. A wide dissemination of knowledge concerning the latest research on type 1 diabetes is extremely important – among patients and, above all, among medical practitioners. This book is to serve as an approximation of the latest knowledge for physicians who take care of patients with diabetes on a daily basis. (Imprint: Nova)

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
pp. vii

Chapter 1
Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes
(Dorota Iwaszkiewicz-Grzeœ, Mateusz Gliwiñski, Piotr Trzonkowski, Department of Clinical Immunology and Transplantology, Medical University of Gdañsk, Poland)
pp. 1-18

Chapter 2
Intensive Insulin Therapy in Clinical Practice
(Szypowska A, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland)
pp. 19-42

Chapter 3
Diabetes Education: Techniques, Methods and Psychological Support
(Zduñczyk B, Szypowska A, Clinical Pediatric Hospital of Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, and others)
pp. 43-64

Chapter 4
Novel Experimental Therapies of Type 1 Diabetes and Future Perspectives
(Gliwiñski M, Iwaszkiewicz-Grzeœ D, Żalińska M, Myœliwiec M, Trzonkowski P, Department of Clinical Immunology and Transplantology, Medical University of Gdañsk, Poland, and others)
pp. 65-74

Chapter 5
Hyperglycemic Crises – Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Syndrome (HHS), Lactic Acidosis (LA), Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)
(Otto-Buczkowska E, Dryżałowski M, Medical Specialist Center in Gliwice, Poland, and others)
pp. 75-90

Chapter 6
Remission in Type 1 Diabetes – What’s New?
(Chwalba A, Otto-Buczkowska E, Medical Specialist Center in Gliwice, Poland)
pp. 91-98

Chapter 7
Metabolic Memory — The Implications for Diabetic Complications
(Otto-Buczkowska E, Dryżałowski M, Medical Specialist Centre in Gliwice, Poland, and others)
pp. 99-106

Chapter 8
Perioperative Care of Patients with Type 1 Diabetes
(Otto-Buczkowska E, Dryżałowski M, Medical Specialist Center in Gliwice, Poland, and others)
pp. 107-118

Chapter 9
Alterations of Blood Glucose Homeostasis in Critically Ill Youngest Patients
(Otto-Buczkowska E, Dryżałowski M, Medical Specialist Centre in Gliwice, Poland, and others)
pp. 119-130

Chapter 10
Impaired Glucose Homeostasis in Endocrinological Diseases
(Wikiera B, Zubkiewicz-Kucharska A, Noczyñska A, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland)
pp. 131-162

Chapter 11
Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndromes in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(Beñ-Skowronek I, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland)
pp. 163-176

Chapter 12
Ovarian Function and Puberty in Girls with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(Ewa Wender-Ożegowska, Katarzyna Ożegowska, Department of Obsterics and Women’s Diseases, University School of Medical Sciences, Poznañ, Poland, and others)
pp. 177-186

Chapter 13
Secondary Diabetes
(Otto-Buczkowska E, Chwalba A, Medical Specialist Center in Gliwice, Poland)
pp. 187-196

Chapter 14
Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes
(Otto-Buczkowska E, Chwalba A, Medical Specialist Center in Gliwice, Poland)
pp. 197-202

Chapter 15
Coeliac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
(Szaflarska-Popławska A, Department of Pediatric Endoscopy and Gastrointestinal Function Testing, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruñ, Poland)
pp. 203-214

Chapter 16
Skin Lesions in Type I Diabetes: An Update
(Mêdrek K, Reich A, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland)
pp. 215-230

Index
pp. 231-234

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