Korelasi Proteinuria Metode Rasio Albumin-Kreatinin Urin dengan Metode Kromatografi pada Preeklamsi

Abstract

Preeclampsia is still one of the major causes of maternal mortality. In preeclamptic renal vascular endothelial damage occurs that leads to proteinuria. Examination of proteinuria is essential in preeclampsia diagnosis. Urinary albumin-creatinine ratio (uACR) is one of proteinuria test methods with good correlation with 24-hour urinary protein as the gold standard. Another method is chromatographic method (dipstick urinalysis) which is still widely used in various health facilities but from various studies it has wide variation of sensitivity and specificity values. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a good correlation between the results of the proteinuria examination by dipstick method and uACR method in patients with preeclampsia. The study was conducted at Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital Bandung. Subjects were woman with preeclampsia in accordance with inclusion and exclusion criteria. Statistical analysis was performed using Spearman rank correlation test. There were 52 subjects. Thelargest age group was 20–34 years. From the statistical test performed, agood correlation between the results of proteinuria examination from both methods was found. In conclusion, there is a good correlation between the results of dipstick urinalysis method and the method of urinary albumin-creatinine ratio in patients with preeclampsia. Therefore, dipstick urinalysis examination can still be utilized.

Keywords

• correlation
• dipstick
• preeclampsia
• proteinuria
• uACR