The Discordance Between the Renal Histopathology and Clinical Presentation of Diabetic Nephropathy Calls for Novel Approaches for the Prediction and Monitoring of Kidney Failure in Diabetes

See Clinical Research on Page 2392 See Clinical Research on Page 2392 Advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy are severely hampered by our limited knowledge as to how kidney histopathological changes mirror clinically available markers, such as urinary albumin excretion and estimated glomerular filtration rate and vice versa. A significant obstacle in this regard has been the low number of renal biopsy specimens...