Diabetes nephropathy
Diabetic nephropathy
Updated: 01/21/2021
© Jun Wang, MD, PhD
General features
- Leading cause of end stage renal disease
- Associated with increased extracellular matrix
- Associated with long standing hyperglycemia
- Renal disease reduced by tight diabetic control
- Severity associated with diabetes duration, glycemic control, and genetic background
- Earliest sign: moderately increased albuminuria (30-300 mg/d)
- Annual glomerular filtration and urine ablumin level tests in diabetic patients for early detection
- Diagnosis based on renal biopsy
Clinical features
- Albuminuria
- Moderately increased albuminuria (microalbuminuria): 30-300 mg/d
- Severely increased albuminuria (macroalbuminuria): > 300 mg/d
- Decreasing glomerular filtration rate
- Hypertension
- Hypoalbuminemia and associated presentations, such as edema
- Less common, hematuria
- Other diabetic complications: diabetic retinopathy, diabetic neuropathy, etc
Key pathogenesis
- Excess extracellular matrix
- Resulted from stromal cell proliferation caused by advanced glycation end products, etc
- Glomerular abnormalities: Most common
Diffuse capillary basement membrane
thickening
Diffuse and nodular glomerulosclerosis
Diffuse mesangial sclerosis
- Macrovascular abnormalities: Atherosclerosis and ateriolosclerosis
- Pyelonephritis: Tubular atrophy, interstitial fibrosis and inflammation
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