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- Title
Acute kidney injury in human leptospirosis: an immunohistochemical study with pathophysiological correlation.
- Authors
Araujo, Eduardo Rocha; Seguro, Antonio Carlos; Spichler, Anne; Magaldi, Antonio J.; Volpini, Rildo A.; Brito, Thales De; De Brito, Thales
- Abstract
Tubulointerstitial nephritis is a common clinicopathological finding in leptospirosis. Clinically, nonoliguric acute kidney injury (AKI), hypokalemia, sodium, and magnesium wasting frequently occur in leptospirosis. The exact mechanisms of renal involvement remain largely unclear. Immunohistochemistry to detect expression of the endogenous sodium/hydrogen exchanger isoform 3 (NHE 3), aquaporin 1 and 2, alpha-Na(+)K(+)ATPase, and sodium-potassium-chloride cotransporter in its NKCC2 isoform was performed on kidneys removed during autopsy of human leptospirosis cases and kidneys removed during autopsy of human non-leptospirosis cases with and without evidence of acute tubular necrosis (ATN). A decrease in NHE 3, aquaporin 1, and alpha-Na(+)K(+)ATPase expression occurred in proximal convoluted tubule cells. Expression of aquaporin 1 was preserved along the descending thin limb of the loop of Henle in the outer medulla. alpha-Na(+)K(+)ATpase expression was essentially preserved in the distal tubules, i.e., the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle, macula densa, and distal convoluted tubule. Aquaporin 2 expression in the collecting tubules was enhanced compared to those of non-leptospirotic kidneys. NKCC2 cotransport isoform was expressed in the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle and was essentially preserved in leptospirotic kidneys. Primary injury of the proximal convoluted tubules is regarded as the hallmark of the kidney in leptospirosis. Sodium and water transport are particularly affected with increased distal potassium excretion, hypokalemia, and polyuria. Enhanced expression of aquaporin 2 in medullary collecting tubules is probably an attempt to retain water during the nonoliguric phase of renal failure.
- Subjects
ACUTE kidney failure; LEPTOSPIROSIS; HYPOKALEMIA; SODIUM; MAGNESIUM; KIDNEY injuries
- Publication
Virchows Archiv: European Journal of Pathology, 2010, Vol 456, Issue 4, p367
- ISSN
0945-6317
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00428-010-0894-8