RENAL GLYCOSURIA

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1 July 1921

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)

Vol. 28 (1) , 54-61
https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1921.00100130059005

Abstract

While the majority of clinicians have admitted the existence of renal glycosuria, the number of entirely acceptable cases that have been reported is small. Allen¹accepts only two, those of Bönninger²and Tachau,³and Foster⁴found no others above suspicion. Recently, several cases have been reported, some of which present the characteristics of mild diabetes mellitus. With the introduction of simple, accurate methods for determining the sugar content of the blood, it has been possible to establish the diagnosis on a firm basis. The subject has been discussed in detail by several modern authors, notably Goto,⁵Bailey⁶and Lewis and Mosenthal.⁷It is important to remember that extreme caution should be used in making the diagnosis of renal glycosuria, rather than that of diabetes mellitus; the disastrous injustice of assuring a diabetic that he has the innocuous disease that the former seems to be, and of failing to regulate his

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