Labs and Imaging Flashcards
UA consists of
- color and appearance
- chemical findings
- microscopic findings
SX that warrent UA
abdominal pain, back pain, frequent or painful urination, blood in your urine, or other urinary problems
what dose red or pink urine mean?
- BPH
- kidney stones
- cysts
- cancer
- hard exercise
- beets
- blackberries
- rhubabrb
- rifampin
- phenazopyridine
- senna
Orange urine
- Phenazopyridine
- senna
- rifampin
- sulfasalazine (Azulfidine)
- adriamycin
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B12
- dehydration
- cholestasis
- acute heaptitis
- alcoholic liver disease
- oral contraceptives
blue or green urine means
- dyes
- amitriptyline
- cimetidine
- triamterene
- indomethacin
- propofol
- hypercalcemia
- UTI by some bacteria
dark brown or cola-colored urine
- fava beans
- rhubarb
- aloe
- Chloroquine and primaquine
- metronidazole
- nitrofurantoin
- senna
- Methocarbamol
- phenytoin
- statins
- UTI
- exterme exercise
- viral heaptitis
- cirrhosis
- dehydration
- rhabdomyolysis
cloudy urine
- kidney stones
- UTI
- dehydration
- STI
- diabetes
- vaginitis
Urine dip stick includes
- nitrite
- leukocyte esterase
- specific gravity
- pH
- protien
- glucose
- bilirubin
- urobilinogen
- ketones
- blood
Nitrites indicate
normal: negative
abnormal: any shade of pink
* Cystitis
* E coli
* Klebsiella
* Proteus
* Enterobacter
* Cirtobacter
Leukocyte Esterase indicates
Bacterial infection
Trichomonas
Chlamydia
Balanitis
Urethritis
TB
Bladder tumors
Nephrolithiasis
Foregin bodies
Exercise
Glomerulonephritis
Specific Gravity indicates
Hyposthenuria (<1.010)
* Damage to kidney tubule cells (renal tubular necrosis)
* Diabetes insipidus
* Drinking too much fluid
* Kidney failure
* Low sodium level in the blood
* Severe kidney infection (pyelonephritis)
Hypersthenuria (>1.010)
* Adrenal glands do not produce enough hormones (Addison disease)
* Heart failure
* High sodium level in the blood
* Loss of body fluids (dehydration)
* Narrowing of the kidney artery (renal artery stenosis)
* Shock
* Sugar (glucose) in the urine
* Syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH)
Normal: 1.005 to 1.030
Bilirubin
Viral hepatitis (Hepatitis A-E)
Alcoholic liver disease (alcoholic steatosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis)
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
Autoimmune hepatitis
Wilson disease
Hemochromatosis
Dubin-Johnson syndrome
Rotor syndrome
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Ischemic hepatitis
Sarcoidosis
Pregnancy
Drug-induced liver injury
Sepsis
Gallstones
Biliary stricture
Biliary atresia
Choledochal cyst
Cholangitis (bacterial, recurrent pyogenic, primary sclerosing, secondary sclerosing)
Cholangiocarcinoma
Intrahepatic malignancy
Extrahepatic malignancy (lymphoma, pancreatic cancer)
Chronic pancreatitis
Urobilinogen indicates
Hepatitis
Cirrhosis
Carcinoma
Hemolytic disorders
Bilirubin findings
Trace
Small
Moderate
Large
Urobilinogen findings
0.2 mg/dl
1 mg/dl
2 mg/dl
4 mg/dl
8 mg/dl
Protein results
trace 10 to 20 mg per dL
1+ (30 mg per dL),
2+ (100 mg per dL)
3+ (300 mg per dL)
4+ (1,000 mg per dL).
Protien causes
Minimal change disease
Idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis
Focal segmental glomerulonephritis
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
IgA nephropathy
DM
Collagen vascular disorders
Amyloidosis
Preeclampsia
Infection
Gastrointestinal and lung cancers
Lymphoma
Drugs
Hypertensive nephrosclerosis
Uric acid nephropathy
Acute hypersensitivity interstitial nephritis
Fanconi syndrome
Heavy metals
Sickle cell disease
Multiple myeloma
Myoglobinuria
Glucose cause
DM
Tubular damage
Ketones cause
DM
pH cause
High: Renal tubular acidosis
Low: DM or renal/bladder calculi
Blood cause
Renal calculi
Glomerulonephritis
Pyelonephritis
Hyaline cast
Conglomerations of protein indicating proteinuria
Hyaline cast cause
Acute:
Following strenuous exercise
Orthostatic proteinuria
Fever
Chronic:
Glomerulonephritis
Pyelonephritis
CHF
Chronic renal failure
RBC casts
Clump of RBC due to breakdown of glomerulus and stasis
RBC casts cause
Glomerulonephritis
SBE
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Renal infarcts
Vasculitis
Sickle cell anemia
SLE
Malignant HTN
Goodpasture’s syndrome
PSGN
WBC casts cause
Acute pyelonephritis
Glomerulonephritis
Lupus nephritis
Renal tubular epithelial cell casts
Nephrosis
Amyloidosis
Heavy mental or other poisoning
Glomerulonephritis
Acute tubular necrosis
Pyelonephritis
Waxy or broad casts cause
Chronic renal failure
Crystals cause
Nephrolithiasis
Uric acid
Microalbumin cause
Moderate: Early detection of kidney disease
High: Kidney failure
24-h urine protein findings
N 150 mg/24 h
Proteinuria 150-500 mg/24h
>2000 mg/24 h
>3500 mg/24h
24-h urine protein cause
Glomerular
Nephrotic syndrome
Renal disease
HTN
Toxicity from heavy metals/ solvents
Preeclampsia/eclampsia
Fractional excretion of sodium findings
Increased sodium in urine = intrinsic kidney path
Normal sodium = prerenal cause
FENa > 2 damage to tubules
FENa < 1 decrease blood flow
Creatinine clearance findings
24-h urine collected and blood draw
M 90-139 ml/min
F 80-125 ml/min
Creatinine clearance cause
Tubular damage
Glomerulonephritis
Kidney failure
Albumin creatinine ratio findings
30-300 mg/day
Albumin creatinine ratio cause
Kidney damage in pt with DM
Uroflowmetry or “Uro Flow Test” findings
Measures voided volume, voiding time, average flow rate, max flow rate (Qmax) N urine volume >200ml over 15-30 sec
N peak flow: Male 20-25 ml/s, Female 20-30 ml/s
Uroflowmetry or “Uro Flow Test” cause
Decrease: Suggests bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) (most common in M), or weak detrusor muscle contraction
Increase: Suggests bladder spasticity
Intermittent flow: Straining to overcome resistance (sphincter tone)
Cytometry findings
Assesses bladder storage capacity, pressure as bladder fills, how full when urge triggered
Detrusor contractions before bladder fills to 150-250ml is abnormal