Paratubular basement membrane insudative lesions predict renal prognosis in patients with type 2 diabetes and biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy.
Koki MiseYutaka YamaguchiJunichi HoshinoToshiharu UenoAkinari SekineKeiichi SumidaMasayuki YamanouchiNoriko HayamiTatsuya SuwabeRikako HiramatsuEiko HasegawaNaoki SawaTakeshi FujiiShigeko HaraHitoshi SugiyamaHirofumi MakinoJun WadaKenichi OhashiKenmei TakaichiYoshifumi UbaraPublished in: PloS one (2017)
PTBMIL may be useful for predicting the renal prognosis of patients with biopsy-proven DN, but further investigation of these lesions in various stages of DN is needed.