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PROTEINURIA IN PREGNANCY – JUST WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2005
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Apart from the measurement of blood pressure, dipstick analysis of urine for protein is the most commonly performed antenatal screening test. The presence of proteinuria is seen as a possible indication of many complications in pregnancy, from urinary tract infection to chronic renal disease and it remains central to the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia in a hypertensive pregnancy. It has both diagnostic and prognostic implications when it is found though the optimal methods for detection and quantification in primary and secondary care remain controversial.
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