Exacerbation of diabetic renal failure following intravenous pyelography.
Twenty-two of 29 (76 per cent) diabetic patients with a creatinine level of more than 2 mg/100 ml had exacerbation of renal failure following intravenous pyelography. In nine patients this was irreversible. Particularly at risk seem to be patients with early onset diabetes (less than 40 years), and those patients with severe renal failure (creatine over 5 mg/100 ml). No less that 15 of 16 (93 per cent) such patients had problems after intravenous pyelography; of these, nine (56 per cent) had irreversible deterioration. This report, in context with the increasing number of case reports of similar findin.gs, indicates that intravenous pyelography is dangerous in patients with juvenile onset diabetes who have a creatinine level of more than 5 mg/100 ml.[1]References
- Exacerbation of diabetic renal failure following intravenous pyelography. Harkonen, S., Kjellstrand, C.M. Am. J. Med. (1977) [Pubmed]
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