A total of 44 cases of primary diabetic vitrectomy with silicone oil infusion were reviewed in a 3-year period. Intravitreal bevacizumab was used preoperatively for cases with active proliferation, ...

Diabetes Care. 2013;36(10):3169-3176. During the baseline SHC, mean GFR was similar in type 2 diabetic (127 ± 34 mL/min) and healthy (128 ± 36 mL/min) subjects. During the repeat SHC after 7 days of ...

Among men, serum phosphate levels declined with age almost linearly (Figure 1, top graph). Serum phosphate levels in women under the age of 45 years overlapped with those in men and then increased ...

Under normal conditions, most of the sodium chloride filtered by the kidney (often more than 99 percent) is reabsorbed, and one can think of the tubular functions that permit this reabsorption as ...

While not traditionally discussed, the kidneys’ contributions to maintaining glucose homeostasis are significant and include such functions as release of glucose into the circulation via ...

Objective—To examine the effect of dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, on the major components of renal glucose reabsorption (decreased maximum renal glucose ...