Proteinuria in diabetic patients--is it always diabetic nephropathy?
Abstract
Diabetic nephropathy (dNP) is a consequence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, typically occurring between 5 and 15 years after diabetes has been diagnosed. The coincidence of dNP and diabetic retinopathy (dRP) is well known. In this study we correlated the histological findings of the kidney biopsy with the clinically expected diagnosis of dNP. Over a 4-year period with a total of 326 kidney biopsies, 85 biopsies were performed on patients with diabetes. In all of these patients we had information about duration of diabetes and ophthalmological status. Additionally, data about proteinuria, urine sediment and autoantibodies were available. The nephrologist had to give the suspected diagnosis before the biopsy was performed, using the clinical data available. In 57 patients (67%) dNP was predicted clinically before biopsy. In 28 patients we expected a different kind of kidney disease. Only 43 patients had dNP histologically. In 16 out of 19 patients with dRP we also found dNP. 26 patients with dNP did not have dRP. So dRP was very specific but not sensitive to predict dNP. On the other hand, all patients without dRP but acanthocytes in urine sediment had non-diabetic kidney disease (NDKD). In the case of patients with neither dRP no...Continue Reading
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Different patterns of renal damage in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a multicentric study on 393 biopsies
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