NDT Advance Access originally published online on May 17, 2005
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2005 20(7):1514-1515; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh887
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Letter
HenochSchönlein purpura in a patient with diabetic nephropathy and vascular complications
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Sir,
Despite the high incidence of diabetic nephropathy worldwide, diabetic patients seldom undergo renal biopsy. This usually occurs when an otherwise unexplained rapid loss of renal function or appearance of haematuria requires a histological evaluation, explaining why the incidence of superimposed glomerulopathies in diabetic patients is probably underestimated [16].
We report the case of
1 Department of Experimental and Clinical Pathology and Medicine Chair of Internal Medicine University of Udine2 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Division of Anatomic Pathology General Hospital S. Maria della Misericordia I-33100 Udine Italy Email: alessandro.cavarape@dpmsc.uniud.it