Microscopic amounts of blood in urine have been considered a risk factor for urinary tract malignant tumors. However, only a small proportion of patients referred for investigation are subsequently ...

The presence of microscopic levels of blood in the urine is unreliable as an indicator for renal or bladder cancer, report researchers. "An extremely small proportion of patients with microscopic ...

Adolescents and young adults who had persistent, microscopic blood in their urine (hematuria) were more likely to develop end-stage renal disease over a follow-up period of about 20 years, although ...

Blood in urine, known as haematuria, can signal kidney cancer. This symptom, whether visible or microscopic, demands ...

We often focus on blood work for diagnostics, but urine tests hold great power mdash; sometimes uncovering things that blood ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When a dipstick test suggests there's blood in the urine, the next step should be to examine a sample of the urine under a microscope to make sure the dipstick result is ...

Clinical Biologist at the clinical laboratory of the Ghent University hospital, Belgium Member of the European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Member of the Royal Belgian Society of ...

Occult blood is when you can’t see blood in your urine with your eye and it’s only visible under a microscope. You may need antibiotics or different treatments depending on the infection or other ...