Diabetic angiopathy--retrospect and prospect
Voigt, H.; Katzschmann, R.; Bürger, M.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 41(20): 580-582
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 3548103 Document Number: 271079
Max Bürger intensively dealt with the problems of angiopathia diabetica which determines the prognosis of the diabetic. His successful action in diabetogenic gangrene must from the modern point of view possibly supplemented by methods opening the vascular lumenor by haemorheological therapy. In contrast to this many questions of the prophylaxis and early therapy of arteriosclerosis in diabetes mellitus still await their only interdisciplinary possible clarification. In practice hopes are connected with the new possibilities of the management of metabolism in diabetes type I and the improvement of the patient's compliance.