Kidney Biopsy A kidney biopsy is an invasive procedure to remove a sample of your kidney and examine it under a microscope. It is usually not needed to diagnose diabetic nephropathy.

Having diabetes increases your risk for diabetic nephropathy, which causes damage to the kidneys. Early treatment can improve your outlook.

The proportion of nondiabetic renal lesions in proteinuric type 2 diabetic patients seems to vary according to the criteria used to perform the biopsy and to the ethnic background of the patient.

Diabetic nephropathy is kidney disease and it’s serious, but you can get screening tests to help diagnose this diabetes complication early enough to treat it. Diabetes-related nephropathy, also ...

Diabetes-related nephropathy is a potential complication of diabetes. Tests to help screen for nephropathy include urine protein tests, imaging tests, kidney biopsy, and glomerular filtration rate.

Study: Alterations of gut microbiota in biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy and a long history of diabetes without kidney damage. Image Credit: ART-ur/Shutterstock.com Diabetic neuropathy and gut ...

More than half of patients with diabetes undergoing kidney biopsy had additional findings other than diabetic kidney disease, according to published data from the Cleveland Clinic Florida.&ldquo ...

SAN DIEGO—Vascular lesions found on renal biopsy for diabetic nephropathy may predict development of cardiovascular (CV) events, study findings presented at Kidney Week suggest.

IgA nephropathy can be hard to predict and treat. Learn what factors make it likely to get worse and how best to treat it.

Diabetic nephropathy is a major cause of morbidity and a key determinant of mortality in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus. This Review addresses the current classification of the ...