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The effect of hyperglycaemia on renal function in diabetic nephropathy remains poorly understood. We investigated the renal haemodynamic response to an acute plasma glucose rise from sustained euglycaemia to sustained hyperglycaemia in eight persistently proteinuric Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients. Studies were performed in a double-blind cross-over manner after i.v. injection of 450 mg lysine acetylsalicilate (equivalent to 250 mg acetylsalicilic acid) or equal volume of 0.9% NaCl (isotonic saline). In the isotonic saline experiments hyperglycaemia produced a significant rise, by approximately 35%, in glomerular filtration rate in all patients from 41.5±5.2 to 55±6 ml·min−1·1.73 m−2 (p<0.005) and an increase in sodium paraminohippurate clearance from 178±22.7 to 220±20.0 ml·min−1·1.73 m−2 (p<0.05). These changes took place within the first 30 min of glucose infusion and were maintained for a 90 min hyperglycaemic period. Filtration fraction did not change significantly. Infusion of lysine acetylsalicilate lowered baseline glomerular filtration rate (isotonic saline vs lysine acetylsalicilate 41.5±5.2 vs 30.0±5.7 ml·min−1·1.73 m−2; p<0.05) and significantly blunted the rise in glomerular filtration rate during hyperglycaemia (glomerular filtration rate increment: saline vs lysine acetylsalicilate: 13.6±2.8 vs 5.3±1.8 ml·min−1 ·1.73 m−2; p<0.005). The effects on renal plasma flow were similarly blunted. In five additional patients, time- and volume-controlled isotonic saline experiments during sustained euglycaemia showed no significant changes in glomerular filtration rate and sodium paraminohippurate clearance. In Type 1 diabetic patients with advanced renal failure, acute hyperglycaemia induces a significant elevation in glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow which is likely to be mediated by renal prostaglandin production.
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De Cosmo, S., Earle, K., Morocutti, A. et al. Glucose-induced changes in renal haemodynamics in proteinuric Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients: inhibition by acetylsalicilic acid infusion. Diabetologia 36, 622–627 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00404071
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