Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction and aims: Diabetic neuropathy may trigger the development of anemia in patients even before the onset of advanced renal failure. Autonomic neuropathy with subsequent renal denervation, combined with damaged erythropoetin producing fibroblasts in renal cortex, may have contributed to the early development of anemia in the patients with diabetes. Proliferative retonopathy, autonomic neuropathy, microalbuminuria, and moderate renal failure, suggesting that, factors o...