Pregnancy as an early stress test for cardiovascular and kidney disease diagnosis.

Objectives: Pregnancy is a cardiometabolic and renal stress test for women, primarily when associated with hypertension syndrome, which can have deleterious effects in the long term. We undertook this study to make a long-term evaluation on these women.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study was conducted to investigate voluntary women who had pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome versus normal pregnancy.

[Podocyturia in pregnant women with chronic hypertension may predict kidney injury?].

Purpose: To evaluate the presence of podocyturia in chronic hypertensive pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy and its possible association with renal disease.

Methods: This was an observational study of a convenience sample of 38 chronic hypertensive pregnant women. The podocytes were labeled by the indirect immunofluorescence technique with anti-podocin and diamidino-phenylindole (DAPI).

Detection of podocyturia in patients with lupus nephritis.

Introduction: The podocyturia has been detected in glomerular diseases, such as lupus nephritis (LN), in which proteinuria is an important manifestation, and its occurrence seems to be limited to the active phase of the disease.

Objective: To evaluate podocyturia in LN patients, and the possible association with clinical disease activity.

Methods: We evaluated 56 patients with LN, that were classified in three groups according to the degree of clinical activity: Group B, no activity (n = 17), Group C with mild (n = 29) and Group D, moderate to severe activity (n = 10).