Diabetic neuropathies: update on definitions, diagnostic criteria, estimation of severity, and treatments.
Preceding the joint meeting of the 19th annual Diabetic Neuropathy Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (NEURODIAB) and the 8th International Symposium on Diabetic Neuropathy in Toronto, Canada, 13-18 October 2009, expert panels were convened to provide updates on classification, definitions, diagnostic criteria, and treatments of diabetic peripheral neuropathies (DPNs), autonomic neuropathy, painful DPNs, and structural alterations in DPNs.
Tesfaye
Solomon
S
Diabetes Research Unit, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield, UK. solomon.tesfaye@sth.nhs.uk
Boulton
Andrew J M
AJ
Dyck
Peter J
PJ
Freeman
Roy
R
Horowitz
Michael
M
Kempler
Peter
P
Lauria
Giuseppe
G
Malik
Rayaz A
RA
Spallone
Vincenza
V
Vinik
Aaron
A
Bernardi
Luciano
L
Valensi
Paul
P
D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans