In Acute IgA Nephropathy, Proteinuria and Creatinine Are in the Spot, but Podocyturia Operates in Silence: Any Place for Amiloride?

Table 1

Clinical, biochemical, and interventional data.

Variables	Days
	0	1	2	3	4	15	30	365
	Interventions
	Admission	Biopsy steroids		Biopsy result	Hospital discharge	Amiloride	Valsartan
Blood pressure (mmHg)	110/70	124/76	120/70	120/72	110/76	126/72	116/78	110/66
Serum creatinine	3	3.1	2.6	2.2	1.6	1.2	0.7	0.9
CKD-EPI (mL/min)	29	28	34	42	62	88	138	124
Podocytes/gram urinary creatinine (cells/g)	166	NP	NP	NP	NP	110	0.8	0.7
Proteinuria (g/day)	1.89	NP	NP	NP	1.1	0.5	0.07	0.09
Dysmorphic red blood (%)	95	NP	NP	NP	89	40	15	20
Serum potassium (mEq/L)	4.9	4.8	4.3	4.1	3.8	3.7	4.1	4.3

NP, not performed.