Patient Services

Patient Eligibility

The clinical care program accepts patients two years of age or older and provides evaluation and care for patients with:

• Diabetes Mellitus
• Hyperlipidemia
• Metabolic Bone Disease (Osteoporosis)
• Endocrinopathies
• Recurrent Nephrolithiasis (Kidney Stones)
• Thyroid Disorders
• Pituitary Disorders
• Hypogonadism
• Hypoglycemia

Special Focus Programs Include:

• Diabetic Neuropathy
• Insulin Pumps
• Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Flushing Disorders
• Hyperlipidemias
• Metabolic Bone Disease

Comprehensive patient evaluation and treatment are available at the Strelitz Diabetes Center at Eastern Virginia Medical School, located at 855 West Brambleton Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23510. Appointments can be made by calling 757-446-5908.

Resources

• Diabetes Care and Education Team
• Outpatient Clinical Center
• Metabolic Reference Laboratory
• Clinical Research Program
• "New Treatment" Research Studies

• Consultation and medical treatment
• Nutritional and nursing evaluation and counseling
• Assessment of diabetic complications
• Psychosocial evaluation
• Outpatient kinetic endocrine and metabolic testing
• Thyroid biopsy
• Labeled bone biopsy
• Nonmydriatic retinal photography
• Testing for Peripheral and autonomic diabetic neuropathies
• Testing for neurogenic impotence
• DEXA (Dual X-ray Absortiometry) scanning for measuring bone density and loss

Metabolic Reference Laboratory

This is a resource to provide state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and services for the enhanced evaluation necessary in many referred clinical situations.

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