Luigi Rossi, Loreto Gesualdo
The curious case of the Diabetic Nephropathy (DN) : paraphrasing the name of a famous movie is certainly an unusual way to deal with a medical-scientific issue, but it could be extremely functional. Benjamin Button, with his backward life, breaks the unquestionable certainty of human life progressing through fixed steps. Similarly, the knowledge of DN seems go backwards; therefore, although it is a pathology which clinicians are usually sure, maybe too sure, they know every aspect of, the clinical nephrologist managing a diabetic patient often finds himself/herself far from his/her old certainties and proper answers...
March 2017: Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia: Organo Ufficiale Della Società Italiana di Nefrologia