conclusions the use of leukocyte esterase urine dipstick test can be a quick and easy method in early diagnosis of sbp to start the treatment until preparation of sbp-cell count results. results in this study, 100 patients with ascites due to cirrhosis, with an average age of 38.9 ± 6.54 years were evaluated. twenty cases had positive results, of whom 17 cases were also detected based on the st...

Current screening methods for diabetic kidney disease (DKD), characterized by albumin excretion in urine, are expensive or only identify patients late stages. Hence, there is need a cost-effective, quick, and portable tool which identifies at DKD onset. Here we report that ultracentrifugation coupled with infrared spectroscopy machine learning can quantify low level microalbuminuria urine sampl...

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), commonly taken as a dietary supplement and excreted in the urine, can interfere with peroxidase redox indicator systems such as those used in reagent-strip tests for urinary glucose and hemoglobin. We investigated whether the concentrations of ascorbic acid in urine after modest supplementary doses of vitamin C are high enough to interfere with such dipstick tests. Af...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is major cause of morbidity and premature mortality from its long-term complications such as cardiovascular disease, blindness, renal failure, amputation and stroke. The study was conducted to determine the frequency of albuminuria in diabetic patients presenting with macro-vascular complications like myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke. METHODS This descriptive...

To determine the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy, midstream urine samples from 505 pregnant women in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, were screened using urine culture and urinalysis. Urine cultures showed heavy growth (> or = 10(5) colony forming units/mL) in 4.8% (24/505) of the samples; 16/24 (66.7%) of these isolates were Escherichia coli. Microscopic examination had the h...

BACKGROUND Many studies have evaluated the accuracy of dipstick tests as rapid detectors of bacteriuria and urinary tract infections (UTI). The lack of an adequate explanation for the heterogeneity of the dipstick accuracy stimulates an ongoing debate. The objective of the present meta-analysis was to summarise the available evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of the urine dipstick test, taking...

For 422 male patients with symptoms indicative of a urinary tract infection, nitrite and leukocyte esterase activity dipstick test results were compared with results of culture of urine samples. The positive predictive value of a positive nitrite test result was 96%. Addition of results of the leukocyte esterase test did not improve the diagnostic accuracy of the nitrite test.

Background: Many studies have evaluated the accuracy of dipstick tests as rapid detectors of bacteriuria and urinary tract infections (UTI). The lack of an adequate explanation for the heterogeneity of the dipstick accuracy stimulates an ongoing debate. The objective of the present meta-analysis was to summarise the available evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of the urine dipstick test, takin...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a two-step clinical rule using symptoms, signs and dipstick testing to guide the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of urinary tract infection (UTI) in acutely unwell young children presenting to primary care. METHODS Decision analytic model synthesising data from a multicentre, prospective cohort study (DUTY) and the wider literature to estimat...