Diabetic nephropathy. Clinical observations and prognosis.
38 diabetic patients in dialysis or after renal transplantation have retrospectively been studied to see if some of the clinical observations could be of prognostic value. The results show that cardial ectasia is correlated to a significant higher mortality, whereas the degree of diabetic retinopathy and the duration of diabetes both seem to be without prognostic importance.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002306:Cardiac Volume; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous