In patients with diabetic nephropathy, glomerulopathy is an important renal structural change. The kidney consists of four basic tissue types: vessels, glomeruli, tubules, and interstitium. Each of ...

Panelists discuss how immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy develops through a complex 4-hit cascade involving aberrant IgA1 glycosylation, anti-glycan antibody formation, immune complex deposition, and ...

Table 1. Diabetic Nephropathy Stages: Cutoff Values of Urine Albumin for Diagnosis and Main Clinical Characteristics Stages Albuminuria cutoff values (ref. 14) Clinical characteristics (ref. no.) ...

IgA nephropathy, first described in 1968 by Berger and Hinglais, 1 is the most common form of primary glomerulonephritis. For decades, IgA nephropathy was considered to have a relatively good ...

Nephropathy refers to the deterioration of kidney function. You may have heard it discussed in terms of its later stages: early kidney disease or kidney failure. People with diabetes are at a higher ...

Microalbuminuria refers to a higher-than-normal amount of albumin in the urine. A high value of this urinary protein may indicate a problem with the kidneys. As people with diabetes have an increased ...

Diabetic nephropathy is kidney disease and it’s serious, but you can get screening tests to help diagnose this diabetes complication early enough to treat it. Diabetes-related nephropathy, also ...

Changes in the renal tubules are important for the development of progressive diabetic kidney disease. Tubular hypertrophy, reduced or-ganic ion transport, and other tubular changes usually develop ...