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Inhalt
Guthoff, Rudolf F.: Opening Remarks ... 7 Doblhammer, Gabriele, Fritze, Thomas, and Noerenberg, Anja: The Demography
of Diabetes mellitus ... 9 Sieving, Paul A.: Diabetic Retinopathy: Past, Present and Future ... 21
Session 1: Advances in Diabetes Research
Hammes, Hans-Peter, and Busch, Stephanie: Neurodegeneration – Lessons for the Diabetic Retina ... 31 Ziegler, Dan: Diabetic Neuropathy – Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations .... 37 Reichenbach, Andreas, and Bringmann, Andreas: Early Detection of Glial
Dysfunction in Diabetic Retinopathy ... 61 Blüher, Matthias: Obesity and Vascular Damage ... 81 Baltrusch, Simone, and Tiedge, Markus: Mutations in the mtDNA as a Cause of
Blindness and Diabetes ... 91 Nawroth, Peter Paul, Herzig, Stefan, and Fleming, Thomas: Diabetic Complications:
A Disease of Reactive Metabolites ... 99
Session 2: Ophthalmic Imaging: The Eye as a Biomarker for Neuropathy
Dawczynski, Jens: Novel Imaging Technique ... 109 Stachs, Oliver, Kowtharapu, Bhavani S., Allgeier, Stephan, Winter, Karsten, and
Köhler, Bernd: Advances in In vivo Imaging of Corneal Nerves ... 115 Köhler, Bernd, Allgeier, Stephan, Stachs, Oliver, Winter, Karsten, and
Bretthauer, Georg: Software-based Imaging and Quantitative Analysis of the Corneal Sub-basal Nerve Plexus ... 127 Petropoulos, Ioannis N., Tavakoli, Mitra, and Malik, Rayaz A.: Corneal Confocal
Microscopy: A Surrogate Endpoint for Diabetic Neuropathy ... 143 Hovakimyan, Marina, Wree, Andreas, Stachs, Oliver, Marfurt, Carl, and Guthoff,
Rudolf F.: Pathogenesis of Corneal Nerve Damage ... 157 Wiedemann, Peter, and Yandiev, Yanors: Diabetic Maculopathy – Can Optical
Coherence Tomography Guide the Management? ... 171
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Session 3: Diabetes Care – Today and Tomorrow
Gardner, Thomas W., and Jackson, Gregory R.: Early Detection of Neural Dysfunction in Diabetic Retinopathy ... 179 Schober, Hans-Christof, and Paschke, Daniel: Treatment of Diabetes mellitus
Type 2 – A Practical Approach ... 187 Bandello, Francesco, Cicinelli, Maria Vittoria, and Parodi, Maurizio Battaglia:
Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy ... 195 Zhivov, Andrey, Peschel, Sabine, Schober, Hans-Christof, Stachs, Oliver, Bambi,
Marie Therese, Kilangalanga, Janvier, Winter, Karsten, and Guthoff, Rudolf F.: Assessment of Diabetic Neuropathy in Diabetes mellitus Type 2 Patients in Democratic Republic of the Congo ... 203 Amoah, Albert George Baidoe: Diabetes Research in Ghana ... 211 Wiedemann, Peter: Closing Remarks ... 219
