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Enfermedad renal diabética

Last reviewed: 2 Dec 2025
Last updated: 01 Oct 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presencia de factores de riesgo
  • hipertensión
  • signos de retinopatía
  • edema
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Other diagnostic factors

  • visión deficiente
  • entumecimiento de las extremidades inferiores
  • dolor de las extremidades inferiores
  • síntomas constitucionales (enfermedad avanzada)
  • cambios en los pies
  • hipotensión ortostática
  • cambios en la piel
  • atrofia muscular
  • palidez (al disminuir la tasa de filtración glomerular)
  • tendencia al sangrado (enfermedad avanzada)
  • respiración de Kussmaul (enfermedad avanzada)
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Risk factors

  • hiperglucemia sostenida
  • hipertensión
  • antecedentes familiares de hipertensión y/o enfermedad renal.
  • obesidad
  • tabaquismo
  • inactividad física
  • dislipidemia
  • ingesta elevada de proteínas, grasas y sodio
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • análisis de orina
  • Relación albúmina-creatinina en orina (RAC)
  • creatinina sérica con estimación de la tasa de filtración glomerular (TFG)
  • ultrasonido de riñón
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Investigations to consider

  • cistatina C con estimación de TFG
  • tasa de excreción de albúmina (TEA)
  • tomografía computarizada (TC) de abdomen
  • angiografía por resonancia magnética (ARM)
  • ultrasonido Doppler
  • biopsia renal
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Treatment algorithm

ONGOING

diabetes de tipo 1 con nefropatía: sin diálisis

diabetes de tipo 2 con nefropatía: sin diálisis

en diálisis peritoneal o hemodiálisis

Contributors

Authors

David J. Leehey, MD, FACP
David J. Leehey

Professor of Medicine

Division of Nephrology

Loyola University Medical Center

Maywood

IL

Disclosures

DJL declares that he has no competing interests. DJL is an author of references cited in this topic.

Irfan Moinuddin, MD
Irfan Moinuddin

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Springfield

IL

Disclosures

IM declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Rajiv Agarwal, MD

Professor of Medicine

Department of Medicine

Division of Nephrology

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis

IN

Disclosures

RA declares that he has no competing interests.

Merlin C. Thomas, PhD

Associate Professor

Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

Melbourne

Australia

Disclosures

MCT has received honoraria for speaking and educational sessions conducted by Sanofi-Aventis, Servier, Boehringer-Ingleheim, Abbott, Amgen, and Jansen-Cilag.

Damian Fogarty, BSc, MD, FRCP

Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Renal Medicine

Belfast City Hospital and Queen's University Belfast

Belfast City Hospital

Belfast

Northern Ireland

UK

Disclosures

DF has no share options, research support, or employment with pharmaceutical companies. He has received one-time speaking fees to cover his time preparing educational talks in the broad areas of diabetic nephropathy and chronic kidney disease, promoting early recognition and evidence-based or best practice management.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

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Disclosures

Peer reviewer affiliations and disclosures pertain to the time of the review.

References

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Key articles

American Diabetes Association. Standards of care in diabetes - 2025. Diabetes Care. 2025 Jan;48(suppl 1):S1-344.Full text

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Diabetes Work Group. KDIGO 2022 clinical practice guideline for diabetes management in chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2022 Nov;102(5s):S1-127.Full text  Abstract

de Boer IH, Khunti K, Sadusky T, et al. Diabetes management in chronic kidney disease: a consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO). Diabetes Care. 2022 Dec 1;45(12):3075-90.Full text  Abstract

Davies MJ, Aroda VR, Collins BS, et al. Management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes, 2022. A consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). Diabetes Care. 2022 Nov 1;45(11):2753-86.Full text  Abstract

Lo C, Toyama T, Wang Y, et al. Insulin and glucose-lowering agents for treating people with diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2018 Sep 24;(9):CD011798.Full text  Abstract

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