Abstract:
A prospective study conducted during the period of March
2005 to October 2005 to evaluate some of the renal functions in
preeclamptic toxemia of pregnancy by measuring blood urea,
creatinine, uric acid and electrolytes (Na+, K+). The population
of the study includes 25 apparently healthy pregnant women and
50 pregnant ladies proved to have preeclamptic toxemia. Blood
samples were taken and plasma was separated. Urea, creatinine,
uric acid, sodium and potassium were determined. The result
obtained for both groups were statistically analyzed using ‘t’ test
correlation.
The result obtained from this study showed that there were
significant difference between uric acid levels in normal
pregnancy and preeclamptic pregnant women (mean difference
3.4 mg/dl and P <0.05) while in urea, creatinine, sodium and
potassium there were no significant differences (P>0.05). Uric
acid measurement showed that there was a correlation between
preeclampsia and uric acid level in blood. Complete renal
damage was found to be very rare.
