Haematuria Analysed

Allergic haematuria.

Allergic reactions are only rarely taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis of urological disorders (Campbell, 1951; Dees and Simmons, 1951). Histologically speaking, however, allergic reactions are just as capable of occurring in the urinary tract as they are in the respiratory or digestive tracts. Thus mast cells and histamine are to be found everywhere in the normal bladder wal...

Adenovirus associated haematuria.

Adenovirus is a common respiratory virus in children and is known to cause acute haemorrhagic cystitis, particularly in the immunosuppressed. In immunocompetent children with adenoviral infection the incidence of haematuria was 18.6%, with 2.4% of these children having macroscopic haematuria and upper tract involvement.

Painless Microscopic Haematuria

A haematuria diagnostic service.

In a haematuria diagnostic service, covering experience with 95 patients, 12 new cases of cancer of the bladder, one of cancer of the kidney, and one of cancer of the penis were identified--all at an early stage. Patients presenting with haematuria were investigated rapidly without disruption of the routine work of the urological unit. Patients who identified the symptoms and sought advice earl...

Haematuria during methicillin therapy.

Case report A 15-year-old boy (P.S. 110521) with a ventricular septal defect was admitted as an emergency 6 days after falling and bruising his knee. After this he had gradually developed an increasing pyrexia, tachycadia and loose stools. He denied dental treatment within the last 6 months. A ventricular septal defect had been diagnosed clinically at the age of 1 year and was shown by catheter...