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Proteinuria is said to
cardiovascular and renal disease and should be a predictor of end-organ damage in patients with hypertension. Detection of an increase in protein excretion is known to possess both diagnostic and prognostic value within the initial detection and confirmation of renal disease. In evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of tests of proteinuria, measurement of protein (or albumin) excretion during a timed urine collection over 24 h has been used as a reference standard. Protein/creatinine ratio (PCR) measured in early morning or random urine samples correlates closely with 24-h
proteinuria and may be a minimum of nearly nearly as good as 24-h urine protein estimation at predicting the speed of loss of GFR in patients with CKD. Proteinuria could also be a frequent complication of CRF in felids and results from damage to the glomerulus or hypertension. Ongoing
proteinuria causes additional renal damage also as an enormous loss of protein from the cat's body.
Proteinuria could even be monitored through the use of microproteinuria test kits, the urine protein/creatinine ratio, and urinalysis. Microalbuminuria generally occurs before increases within the protein/creatinine ratio. In-house test kits designed to be used with domestic cats could even be used to detect microproteinuria (ERD-Screen Urine Test, Heska; VetTest Urine P:C Ratio, IDEXX). Most urinalysis test strips aren't sufficiently sensitive to detect microproteinuria.
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