ALB and Sepsis: Adembri and colleagues demonstrated in an experimental model of sepsis in rats that during the initial stage of the condition, renal damage consisted of diffuse structural alterations of renal corpuscles and glomerular epithelium components, leading to increased albumin permeability and, consequently, elevation of urinary albumin/creatinine ratio up to three times the value found in healthy subjects, and through electrophoresis, it was shown that proteinuria was limited to albumin and low-molecular-weight proteins22.