NEPHROTIC SYNDROME IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 2: DIFFICULTIES OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS
The article presents modern view on the development of diabetic nephropathy in diabetes mellitus, discusses in detail the differential diagnosis of this condition with non-diabetic kidney damage. It is em-phasized that various variants of kidney damage of non-diabetic origin are quite common in patients with diabetes mellitus, therefore, in most cases it is necessary to carefully verify the diagnosis using modern diagnostic methods, including nephrobiopsy. The review is illustrated by the clinical case of nondiabetic nephropathy diagnosis in a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus, histologically verified as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a successful pathogenetically substantiated treatment.