[When is it meaningful to investigate hematuria? Macroscopic hematuria--investigate always. Microscopic hematuria--symptoms and age decide]

Lakartidningen. 2001 Nov 28;98(48):5498-500, 5503.
[Article in Swedish]

Abstract

All patients (n = 578) referred during one year and for whom hematuria was mentioned in the referral form were monitored following urological evaluation including urography and cystoscopy. Evaluation of macroscopic hematuria was often associated with significant findings at both urography (stones) and cystoscopy (bladder tumors). The situation was the same even if not as pronounced for evaluation of microscopic hematuria with concomitant urinary tract symptoms. The evaluation of asymptomatic microscopic hematuria was, however, very rarely associated with significant findings, which were moreover totally lacking among women and younger males.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Cystoscopy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Hematuria / diagnosis*
  • Hematuria / diagnostic imaging
  • Hematuria / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / urine
  • Radiography
  • Referral and Consultation
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / pathology
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / urine
  • Urinary Calculi / diagnostic imaging
  • Urinary Calculi / urine*
  • Urologic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Urologic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Urologic Neoplasms / urine*