Open AccessAdvanced diabetic nephropathy with “Clean” eyes: An extreme phenotype
Author(s) -
Debmalya Sanyal,
Sudip Chatterjee
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2230-9500
pISSN - 2230-8210
DOI - 10.4103/ijem.ijem_590_17
Subject(s) - medicine , retinopathy , nephropathy , diabetes mellitus , diabetic retinopathy , diabetic nephropathy , fundus (uterus) , kidney disease , ophthalmology , urology , endocrinology
It is generally accepted that renal and eye changes in diabetes are concordant. There are however a fair number of patients with diabetes who have end-stage renal disease (ESRD) without any of the typical eye changes. The present study highlights the discordance between retinopathy and nephropathy and describes a series of patients of long-standing diabetes undergoing renal transplant who had little or no evidence of retinopathy.