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The Nephrotic Syndrome: A Complication of Massive Obesity
- JOSÉ R. WEISINGER, M.D.;
- RICHARD L. KEMPSON, M.D.;
- FREDERIC L. ELDRIDGE, M.D., F.A.C.P.; and
- ROBERT S. SWENSON, M.D.
Abstract
Four patients with massive obesity and the nephrotic syndrome were studied. Congestive heart failure was not clinically apparent, and measured cardiac output was elevated; however, right atrial pressure and blood volume were increased. In each case the proteinuria decreased during dietary weight loss. Reductions in right atrial pressure and blood volume also coincided with remission in proteinuria. A mesangial glomerulopathy was present in two patients. We propose that the cause of the reversible proteinuria seen in these obese patients was renal venous hypertension.
Article and Author Information
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▸From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine; and the Veterans Administration Hospital; Palo Alto, California.
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Grant support: General Clinical Research Program for the Division of Research Resources.
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▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to R. S. Swenson, M.D., Medical Service (111R), Veterans Administration Hospital, 3801 Miranda Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.
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- Received February 25, 1974.
- Accepted June 28, 1974.
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