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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2000) 15: 498-501
© 2000 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Altered IgG4 renal clearance in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. Evidence for a subclinical impairment of protein charge renal selectivity

Part of this study was presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association, 14–17 May 1995, San Diego, California, and published as an abstract in Gastroenterology 1995, 108: A879.

Giovanni Monteleone1, Giuseppe Cristina2, Tiziana Parrello1, Susanna Morano2, Livia Biancone1, Patrizia Pietravalle2, Elisabetta Sagratella2, Patrizia Doldo1, Francesco Luzza1, Umberto Di Mario1 and Francesco Pallone1

1 Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Universita' di Catanzaro and 2 Cattedra di Endocrinologia, Universita' di Roma `La Sapienza', Roma, Italy

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Dr F. Pallone, Cattedra di Gastroenterologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Policlinico Universitario, Via T. Campanella, I-88100 Catanzaro, Italy.

Background.A loss of intestinal glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) has been shown in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Since GAGs are involved in the regulation of renal protein filtration and GAGs disruption is associated with anionic proteinuria, we examined whether changes in the selectivity of renal protein filtration occur in IBD.

Methods.From 46 patients with IBD (17 with Crohn's disease (CD), and 29 with ulcerative colitis (UC)) and 21 healthy subjects, urine and serum samples were obtained. Albumin, total IgG and IgG4 clearances were measured using sensitive methods. Serum p-ANCA and TNF-{alpha} were tested.

Results.Median IgG4 clearance was 0.041 ml/ min/10-3 in patients with UC and 0.10 ml/ min/10-3 in CD patients, both significantly higher than in controls (0.03 ml/min/10-3) (P<0.03). IgG4 clearance was above the upper normal limit in 9/17 CD (53%) and in 10/29 UC (34.5%). Eighteen of 19 patients showing abnormal IgG4 clearance were taking mesalazine. In patients on maintenance oral mesalazine, IgG4 clearance was higher than that in patients off treatment (0.12 vs 0.03 ml/min/10-3, P=0.04). No clinical/laboratory sign of renal dysfunction was documented in patients with altered IgG4 clearance and maintained on mesalazine treatment.

Conclusion.Renal protein charge permselectivity is impaired in 40% of patients with IBD with no overt proteinuria. Our data suggest that altered IgG4 clearance may represent a subclinical marker of renal involvement in IBD.

Keywords: antineutrophil antibodies; Crohn's disease; proteinuria; renal permselectivity; ulcerative colitis


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