A pilot study of changes in urinary podocalyxin levels during normal pregnancy and labor

Abstract

Introduction: Increased urinary podocalyxin, a surrogate marker of podocyte detachment, has been shown in preeclampsia and eclampsia, but there is a paucity of data of the effect of normal pregnancy on its urinary excretion. We aimed to describe these changes in this pilot study.

Keywords

• hematuria
• hypertension
• preeclampsia
• pregnancy
• proteinuria