PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Noorwali, Abdulsalam
TI  - Significance of anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies in type 2 diabetic patients
DP  - 2005 Nov 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 1734--1736
VI  - 26
IP  - 11
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/26/11/1734.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/26/11/1734.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2005 Nov 01; 26
AB  - OBJECTIVE: Diabetic glomerulosclerosis is a common cause of proteinuria in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), however, primary glomerulonephritis can superimpose on it. The aim of this study is to evaluate the significance of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies in type 2 DM.METHODS: We choose 60 well known Saudi patients with type 2 DM diagnosed according to American Diabetes Association criteria attending the medical outpatient clinic at Al-Noor Specialist Hospital in Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between July 2004 and December 2004, after written consent and divided them into 3 groups according to the degree of albuminuria, either normal, micro albuminuric or with diabetic nephropathy. We choose 20 healthy subjects as the control. We checked anti-GBM serum level by indirect solid phase immunosorbent assay (ELISA).RESULTS: There was significant increase in anti-GBM serum levels in diabetic patients compared with the control subjects, mainly in the normal and micro albuminuric patients groups, but not in patients with diabetic nephropathy.CONCLUSION: Anti-GBM antibodies are a significant predictor of diabetic nephropathy especially in the early phases, however, we need further studies to document its clinical importance in such common, important diabetic complications.