Can Dipstick Screening for Hematuria Identify Individuals with Structural Renal Abnormalities? A Sonographic Evaluation
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology
- Vol. 30 (1), 25-27
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00365599609182344
Abstract
The present study presents data from a population study of 659 randomly selected adult volunteers. All participants had a renal sonographic examination and at the same time had their urine tested for hematuria by dipstick. Thirty participants (5%) had dipstick hematuria. Similar rates of abnormal renal findings were obtained in the hematuria-positive and hematuria-negative groups, 10% and 8%, respectively. Our results suggest that dipstick investigation for hematuria in mass-screening programs is not effective for the detection of structural renal abnormalities.Keywords
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