A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. / Diabetes mellitus is widespread in the United States, and diabetic kidney disease is one of the most common complications. There is increasing evidence that podocyte injury is the initial pathologic change in diabetic nephropathy, and podocytopathy often manifests on renal biopsy as segmental sclerosis in other kidney diseases. The purpose of this study was to determine if segmental sclerosis is widespread in diabetic kidney disease. This study examined 1142 glomeruli from 61 Pima Indians who had diabetes for at least ten years. 24 patients were normoalbuminuric, 20 were microalbuminuric, and 17 were macroalbuminuric. The presence of segmental sclerosis was noted, as was global sclerosis. Segmental sclerosis was present in less than 2% of glomeruli. All glomeruli showed evidence of diabetic nephropathy including mesangial hypercellularity and invasion of mesangium into capillary loops. These data suggest that segmental sclerosis is not present in significant amounts in diabetic kidney disease. Rather, pathologic changes in the glomeruli of diabetic patients occur in a more diffuse pattern.

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