Abnormal increases in urinary albumin excretion during pregnancy in IDDM women with pre-existing microalbuminuria
Tóm tắt
We compared urinary albumin excretion during and after pregnancy in 30 insulin-dependent diabetic (IDDM) women with normoalbuminuria and in 12 IDDM women with microalbuminuria (>15 μg·min−1) prior to conception. There was a 6.7-fold increase in the urinary albumin excretion up until the third trimester in the women with pre-existing microalbuminuria, compared with a 3.8-fold increase in the normoalbuminuric women. In both groups of patients the urinary albumin excretion reached a peak during the third trimester with 492±404 μg·min−1 in the microalbuminuric women vs 43±36μg·min−1 in the normoalbuminuric women (p<0.0005). Two women from each of the groups developed eclampsia with diastolic blood pressure over 90 mm Hg, mild or moderate oedema and macroproteinuria. Four of the pregnant women with pre-existing microalbuminuria showed a transient nephrotic syndrome (33.3%) with protein excretion over 3 g in 24-h urine samples during the third trimester. In contrast, this was not observed in any of the normoalbuminuric women (p<0.05). Within 12 weeks after delivery the urinary albumin excretion rates dropped to the pre-conception values in both patient groups. Renal function remained normal during pregnancy in both of the groups, with a physiological increase in creatinine clearance up until the third trimester (26% increase in the normoalbuminuric women vs 22% in the microalbuminuric women). In conclusion, the effect of pregnancy on the urinary albumin excretion in diabetic women with preexisting microalbuminuria is an exaggeration of the increase of albuminuria in diabetic women with normoalbuminuria; normalization occurs within 12 weeks after delivery in all cases. This enhancement of the albumin excretion in the microalbuminuric women cannot be explained by a larger increase in the hyperfiltration during pregnancy.
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