Frieda Wolf, M.D.
Dr. Wolf is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
Within the past 12 months, Dr.Wolf reports no commercial conflicts of interest.
Release Date: 07/10/2006
Termination Date: 07/10/2009
Estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s).
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this Cyberounds
®, the participant should be able to:
- Describe some milestones in the history of diabetic nephropathy
- Discuss the pathologic cascade leading to diabetic nephropathy
- List cellular mechanisms of injury due to hyperglycemia
- Describe how podocyte injury is thought to contribute to nephropathy due to diabetes.