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Proteinuria

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Examination of Kidney Function

Part of the book series: Developments in Nephrology ((DINE,volume 4))

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The relation between foam formation on the surface of urine and kidney disease was known by Hippocrates (cf. Cameron 1970). An actual demonstration of the presence of protein in the urine, however, had to wait until the dawn of scientific methods. Frederick Dekkers in 1673 started to use a heat coagulation test to demonstrate protein in the urine (cf. Free and Free 1975). The first physician to show clearly that patients with demonstrable anatomical pathology of the kidneys excreted an albuminous protein into the urine was Richard Bright (1836). Twelve years later Watson (cf.Snapper and Kahn 1971) and Bence-Jones (1848) described a quite different protein from that described by Bright in the urine. In 1878, Leube described proteinuria in soldiers after severe exercise, and in the same year Moxon described a postural stimulus to proteinuria (cf. Pesce and First 1979).

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Schück, O. (1984). Proteinuria. In: Examination of Kidney Function. Developments in Nephrology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5660-5_4

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