Guideline of guidelines: asymptomatic microscopic haematuria

Asymptomatic isolated microscopic haematuria: long-term follow-up.

BACKGROUND Evidence to support current diagnostic and management approaches to asymptomatic haematuria is lacking and based on short-term clinical observation. AIM To ascertain the natural history and long-term outcome of asymptomatic and isolated haematuria, and to determine the clinical correlates of adverse renal events. DESIGN Prospective observational referral-based study. METHODS We...

Painless Microscopic Haematuria

Painless Microscopic Haematuria

Patient with haemoptysis, shortness of breath and microscopic haematuria.

Forty three years old male from Dhule district of Maharashtra presented to his family doctor in December 2004 with malaise, anorexia, haemoptysis. After baseline x-ray (Figure 1) and blood tests he was started on anti tuberculosis treatment (ATT). Patient kept getting recurrent haemoptysis for which repeated x-ray chest were performed (Figure 2). In January 2006 he got admitted to our hosp i ta...

Asymptomatic proteinuria and/or haematuria in 265 Malaysian adults.

Two-hundred and sixty-five patients with asymptomatic proteinuria and/or haematuria were studied at the Department of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Department of Nephrology, General Hospital Kuala Lumpur. They represented 25.4% of all the renal biopsies performed during the period 1980-88. All the three races were affected with 71.3% occurring between the ages of 20-39 years and ...