MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

ABDOMINAL

GENERALISED LYMPHADENOPATHY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A 64-year-old man, with a medical history of a diabetes mellitus, presented augmented symptoms of renal failure. What disease caused such changes in a pancreas?
A
GIomerulosclerosis.
B
. Necrosis of renal tubular epithelium
C
Amyloidosis.
D
Proliferative glomerulonephritis
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Diabetic nephropathy is a common complication of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Over time, poorly controlled diabetes can cause damage to blood vessel clusters in your kidneys that filter waste from your blood. This can lead to kidney damage and cause high blood pressure.

Detailed explanation-2: -In patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who have DKD and severely increased albuminuria, we recommend an antihypertensive regimen that includes an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) (Grade 1B) (algorithm 1).

Detailed explanation-3: -Diabetes mellitus is a disease associated with abnormal carbohydrate metabolism, arising from insulin deficiency and/or malfunction of insulin receptors, insulin being the key hormone in blood glucose homeostasis.

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