Abstract:Background and Aims
Current assessment of diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is limited to estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and albuminuria. These are inadequate as DKD often has heterogenous clinical phenotypes. There is need for a marker of intra-renal fibrosis. Native kidney biopsy remains the only reference method in clinical practice for this purpose, but is invasive and impractical for repeated evaluations. Recently, two-dimensional ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) has eme… Show more
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