Hematuria DSA Flashcards
Gross hematuria is defined as what?
Presence of blood that is visible to the naked eye (>3500 RBC per high-power field)
Microscopic hematuria is defined as what?
2-3 RBC per high field on urine microscopy
ALL patients with hematuria should have a ___________, regardless if there is liklihood of infection.
urine culture
Dx gross (macroscopic) hematuria
- Patient presents with red/brown urine (sometimes w clots)
- Dx of gross hematuria is confirmed by centrifuging the urine specimen
- UNLESS, symptoms are highly suggestive
Dx microscopic hematuria
- Perform a careful history (often, pt comes in for UTI treatment or routine UA)
- Conduct urine dipstick test
- Several days later, repeat urine dipstick test
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Microscopic examination of urine
1. (+): at least 2 properly collected urine specimens show >3 RBC/high-powered field (hpf)
2. (-): No RBCs; consider hemoglobinuria or myoglobinuria
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Microscopic examination of urine
Dx macroscopic/gross hematuria
Is microscopic hematuria noticed by the patient?
No.
It is diagnosed on UA after treatment for UTI or a routine UA.
Prevelance of microscopic hematuria
High in older people
High in women
Prevelance of a serious disease (cancer) is higher in patients with ______ hematuria, however _____ hematuria can also indicate significant GU pathology.
Gross
Microscopic
Non-glomerular microscopic hematuria can be indicative of what?
Bladder cancer
What are risk factors for bladder cancer?
- Smoking
- Aniline dyes in leather, tire and rubber factories
- Heavy phenacetin use
- Past use of high doses of cyclophosphamide
- Herbal weight-loss preps with aristolochic acid found in
All patients with a single episode of gross hematuria need what?
- Thorough H & P
- Urologic or nephrologic evaluation
* Unless a self-limited transient cause is found (trauma, infection, menses, exercise-induced).- However, even if the patient has transient causes, if significant risk factors for maligancy are found, eval further.
- Urologic or nephrologic evaluation
Is one episode of microscopic hematuria less serious than recurrent episodes?
NO.
Hematuria in patients receiving anticoagulation therapy should/should not be solely attributed to anticoagulant.
Should not
Blood in the urine can be an ____ and cause _____, even without a UTI or kidney stones.
irritant
dysuria
Because ____ men with microscopic/gross hematuria are more likely to have a GU malignancy, we should evaluate for it even in the prescense of what ?
Older men
Symptoms of BPH (nocturia, polyuria and decreased force of urinary stream)
What can help us define a patients diagnosis more accuretely and why?
Determining glomerular vs. non-glomerular causes of hematuria, because there is alot of overlap in microscopic and gross hematuria.
What are alarm symptoms associated with hematuria?
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Increased age (>40-50); Males
- increased risk of neoplasm (cancer)
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Constituional symptoms (WL, loss of appetite, chronic malaise, fatigue)
- Cancer or infection
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Personal and social history factors that increase risk of cancer
- Smoking
- Aniline dyes in leather, tire and rubber factories
- Cyclophosphamide
- Pelvic irradiation
- WL herbal preparations that contain aristolochoic acid
- family history of deafness or renal disease
- Alport syndrome, a familial diseaes
___________ hematuria is always pathologic.
True macroscopic hematuria
Microscopic (nonvisible) hematuria can be ______, ______ or _____.
Transient, spurious, persistant
What are the differences between the transient and spurious causes of microscopic hematuria?
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Transient causes: UTIs (which can also cause macroscopic) and strenous exercise
- Hematuria goes away on repeat testing 48 hours later or after not exercising for 72 hours.
- Spurious causes: urinary contamination from mentstruation and sexual intercourse