Patients with frank proteinuria on
urine dipstick test.
In the first episode, our patient was intubated and had been treated for sepsis and urinary tract infection due to positive reaction for nitrite in
urine dipstick test. Although we had not any information to confirm this situation, we thought that our patient had had a slightly higher MetHb level in the first episode and the patient's MetHb level had decreased gradually because natural reduction of the oxidizing agent had not been given during hospital stay.
The currently used diagnostic criteria are increased systolic blood pressure of [greater than or equal to] 140 mm Hg or increased diastolic blood pressure of [greater than or equal to] 90 mm Hg after 20 weeks of pregnancy in a woman with previously normal blood pressure and proteinuria of 0.3 g or more in 24-h urine sample corresponding with 1 + or greater on a
urine dipstick test. [1] Although the 24-h urine protein is diagnostic, the process of sample collection is both cumbersome and inconvenient for the patient.
A
urine dipstick test was deemed positive in this study in the presence of leucocytes and/or nitrites.
A positive
urine dipstick test for proteinuria should be confirmed with quantitative proteinuria measurement (measured as urine:protein:creatinine ratio (g/mmol) on a spot urine sample).
The researchers now intend to develop a
urine dipstick test for FBP that could be rapidly and widely used.
Meanwhile the sensitivity of clinical symptoms, including fever height, CBC total white blood cell count, and
urine dipstick test, was insufficient to determine risk of UTI in infants.
The
urine dipstick test for protein uses a pH indicator and is not affected.
Urine Dipstick Test. Patient was asked to submit random midstream urine sample prior to admission in a 50 mL urine container for laboratory analysis for random
urine dipstick test, protein, and creatinine.
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Urine dipstick test reveals haematuria and 1 - 3+ proteinuria.
The
urine dipstick test useful to rule out infections.
However, he ordered a battery of tests after he took the
urine dipstick test again some months later and fared even worse.