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TRIOPATHY OF DIABETESSequence of Neuropathy, Retinopathy, and Nephropathy in One Hundred Fifty-Five Patients
HOWARD F. ROOT, M.D.;
WILLIAM H. POTE, Jr., M.D.;
HANS FREHNER, M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1954;94(6):931-941.
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DURING the observation of patients in whom diabetes exists for a period of 20 or more years, certain vascular or degenerative complications appear frequently. Today, attention is concentrated on the specific effects upon the venules and capillaries as well as arterioles, especially in the retinae and in the glomeruli of the kidneys. A common chemical pathology may be discovered to explain these lesions as well as the frequency of atherosclerosis. In patients whose diabetes began early in life, a triad is being recognized with increasing frequency; namely, the sequence in the same patient of neuropathy, retinopathy, and nephropathy. The series of 25 such cases described by Root and Kenney * has been increased to 155 in the present report.
DEFINITION
The term "triopathy" has been applied to diabetic patients who usually have shown, first, clinical evidence of neuropathy; then, diabetic retinitis, and, finally, the nephropathy of diabetes.
In this series, the
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Author Affiliations
BOSTON; LOS ANGELES; HERISAU, SWITZERLAND
From the Joslin Clinic, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston; Associate in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Dr. Root); Fellows in Medicine (Dr. Pote and Dr. Frehner).
Footnotes
Read before the Section on Internal Medicine at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 22, 1954.
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