A young female presented to the emergency department following a motor vehicle collision. She complained of left flank pain and was found to have haematuria. After investigation no trauma related injuries were identified. However, an incidental finding of nutcracker phenomenon/syndrome was made. Nutcracker phenomenon is a rare cause of haematuria resulting from nontraumatic compression of the l...

OBJECTIVES To explore whether women experience greater delays in the diagnosis of bladder and renal cancer when first presenting to a general practitioner with symptoms caused by those cancers and potential reasons for such gender inequalities. DESIGN Prospective national audit survey of cancer diagnosis. SETTING English primary care (2009-2010). PARTICIPANTS 920 patients with bladder and...

Macroscopic haematuria of glomerular origin has been associated with acute kidney injury. We report a patient with IgA nephropathy, macroscopic haematuria and acute kidney injury. Systemic anticoagulation may have aggravated haematuria. There was extensive interstitial and intratubular red blood cell extravasation, and interstitial haemosiderin deposits. The abundant presence of macrophages exp...

A 19-year-old female presented with bilateral severe loin pain associated with recurrent macroscopic haematuria. A provisional diagnosis of loin pain haematuria syndrome was made; the severity and frequency of pain led to referral to the pain management service. Alternative diagnoses were considered. Although previous reports of obstruction of the left renal vein have not described pain of this...

Haematuria is a classical symptom of urological disease often signifying a primary bladder cancer. Rarely, however, the presence of blood in the urine can be due to secondary spread of tumours into the bladder from distant sites. Notably this has been reported to occur in breast cancer, malignant melanoma and gastric cancers. Haematuria due to spread from a primary oesophageal cancer to the bla...

A long term follow up study of 100 children referred with recurrent haematuria for at least one year to two regional paediatric nephrology units is described. The mean duration of follow up was 8.2 years. An adequate renal biopsy was obtained in 96 and eight cases of Alport's syndrome and 10 of IgA nephropathy were diagnosed (20% and 26% respectively of the biopsies examined by electron microsc...

Visible haematuria from an uretero-iliac artery aneurysm fistula (UIAF) offers a diagnostic challenge and early accurate diagnosis can have a significant impact on prognosis. We report a 90 year old gentleman who presented with visible haematuria and clot retention. He required catheterisation, bladder washout and a blood transfusion. Subsequent imaging revealed an abdominal aortic aneurysm and...

OBJECTIVE To establish whether changes of lung transfer for carbon monoxide (TLCO) are related to the phase of IgA nephropathy. METHODS Respiratory function was tested in 12 children with IgA nephropathy assessed by percutaneous renal biopsy. This was done during acute exacerbations or haematuria-free phases of the disease. RESULTS TLCO was low in 12/13 measurements made in the haematuric p...