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Association of preeclampsia with podocyte turnover.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Preeclampsia is characterized by hypertension and proteinuria, and increased shedding of podocytes into the urine is a common finding. This finding raises the question of whether preeclamptic nephropathy involves podocyte damage. This study examined podocyte-related changes in a unique sample of renal tissues obtained from women who died of preeclampsia.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

All patients with preeclampsia who died in The Netherlands since 1990 and had available autopsy tissue were identified using a nationwide database of the Dutch Pathology Registry (PALGA). This resulted in a cohort of 11 women who died from preeclampsia. Three control groups were also identified during the same time period, and consisted of normotensive women who died during pregnancy (n=25), and nonpregnant controls either with (n=14) or without (n=13) chronic hypertension. Glomerular lesions, including podocyte numbers, podocyte proliferation, and parietal cell activation, were measured.

Results

Patients with preeclampsia had prominent characteristic glomerular lesions. The results showed that the number of podocytes per glomerulus did not differ significantly between the patients with preeclampsia and the control groups. However, preeclampsia was associated with a significant increase in intraglomerular cell proliferation (7.3% [SD 9.4] of the glomeruli of patients with preeclampsia had Ki-67-positive cells versus 1.6% [SD 3.3] of the glomeruli of hypertensive controls and 1.1% [SD 1.3] of nonpregnant controls; P=0.004) and activated parietal epithelial cells on a podocyte location (34% [SD 13.1] of the glomeruli of patients with preeclampsia versus 18.0% [SD 15.3] of pregnant controls, 11.9% [SD 13.2] of hypertensive controls, and 10.8% [SD 13.4] of nonpregnant controls; P=0.01).

Conclusions

These findings suggest that the recently described mechanisms of podocyte replacement play a role in preeclampsia. These results provide key new insights into the pathogenesis of preeclamptic nephropathy, and they open new possibilities for developing therapeutic modalities.

SUBMITTER: Penning ME

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4123409 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association of preeclampsia with podocyte turnover.

Penning Marlies E ME Bloemenkamp Kitty W M KW van der Zon Tom T Zandbergen Malu M Schutte Joke M JM Bruijn Jan A JA Bajema Ingeborg M IM Baelde Hans J HJ

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 20140717 8

<h4>Background and objectives</h4>Preeclampsia is characterized by hypertension and proteinuria, and increased shedding of podocytes into the urine is a common finding. This finding raises the question of whether preeclamptic nephropathy involves podocyte damage. This study examined podocyte-related changes in a unique sample of renal tissues obtained from women who died of preeclampsia.<h4>Design, setting, participants, & measurements</h4>All patients with preeclampsia who died in The Netherlan ...[more]

PMID: 25035270

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Association of preeclampsia with podocyte turnover.

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Design, setting, participants, & measurements

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Association of preeclampsia with podocyte turnover.

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