Bakgrund: Preeklampsi är en allvarlig graviditetskomplikation som drabbar kvinnor över hela världen. Sjukdomen är den största orsaken till gravida kvinnors ohälsa och dödlighet.Syftet: Syftet med studien var att kartlägga vilka övervakningsmetoder som används vid preeklampsi samt studera evidensen av metoderna.Metod: Författarna har genomfört en litteraturstudie. Detta har genomförts genom granskning och sammanställning av litteratur samt databassökning i PubMed för att finna vetenskapliga artiklar. Till resultatet valdes femton vetenskapliga studier.Resultat. Evidens finns för att följa blodtryck- och urinkontroller som påvisar förändringar i sjukdomen.

The occurrence of small amounts of albumin in urine, microalbuminuria (MA), is used both in human- and veterinary medicine as an indicator for patients who have developing Proteinuria. Proteinuria can be prerenal, renal or postrenal which is important to establish during an investigation. With conventional methods decreased renal function is not detected until 70 % of renal function is lost. The ability to detect and start a treatment earlier might reverse or slow the progression of disease. The purpose of this study was to investigate the reliability of Heska® E.R.D.-Health Screen?, a test for microalbuminuria in dogs, to detect albuminuria.

Bull terrier hereditary nephritis is caused by a mutation that leads to an inadequate synthesis of collagen type IV, which is an important component in the basement membranes. The inheritance of the mutation is autosomal dominant in bull terriers and progression to renal failure takes variable time, from several months to ten years. Proteinuria is the first clinical sign of the disease and the diagnosis is confirmed by transmission electron microscopy of renal tissue where typical ultrastructural changes in the glomerular basement membrane (GBM), thickening and multilaminar splitting are found. This study was performed in order to find out the occurrence of hereditary nephritis in bull terriers in Sweden through examination of urine samples and renal tissue and comparisons with how the disease is described in the literature. Urine samples from 76 Swedish bull terriers were collected and examined for Proteinuria.