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The relation between urinary angiotensinogen and proteinuria in renal AA amyloidosis patients
Aysun Aybal Kutlugün1, Bulent Altun, Umit Aktan
1Department of Nephrology, Ankara, Turkey. draysunaybal@yahoo.com
Objective:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship of local intrarenal renin angiotensin system (RAS) with proteinuria in patients with renal AA amyloidosis.
Methods:
Thirty-two patients with renal AA amyloidosis (19 male, mean age: 45 ± 13 years) and sixteen healthy controls (5 male, mean age: 32 ± 5 years) were included in this study. Spot urine samples were obtained to measure urinary angiotensinogen (AGT) using human AGT-ELISA, urinary creatinine and protein levels. Logarithmic transformations of urinary AGT-creatinine ratio log(UAGT/Ucre) and urinary protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) were done to obtain the normal distributions of these parameters.
Results:
Log(UAGT/UCre) was significantly higher in patients compared with the controls (1.88 ± 0.92 µg/g vs. 1.25 ± 0.70 µg/g; p = 0.023). Importantly a significantly positive correlation was found between log(UAGT/Ucre) and logUPCR in patients (r = 0.595, p = 0.006).
Conclusions:
Urinary AGT levels are higher in renal AA amyloidosis patients than in controls. Also, there is a significant positive correlation between urinary AGT and proteinuria in renal AA amyloidosis.
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