Compendium of urinalysis Urine test strips and microscopy

Compendium of urinalysis Urine test strips and microscopy

Main disease indications Urinary Tract Infection

Interesting facts Are you aware of that ...

? More than 500 million people ? 10% of the world's population ? have some form of kidney damage 1

? One in 20 deaths is caused by diabetes; 8,700 deaths every day; six every minute 3

? Urinary tract infections are the second most common type of infection in the human body 2

? By 2030, almost 23.6 million people will die from cardiovascular disease, mainly heart disease and stroke 4

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1 Main disease indication

Urinary tract infection

8

Kidney disease

10

Diabetes

14

2 From urine fortune telling to real time diagnosis

History of urinalysis

18

Application areas for urine test strips

20

Pre-analytical treatment and test procedure

22

3 Characteristics of urine test strips from Roche

Composition and benefit of the test strip

28

Parameters of urine test strips

32

Detection of microalbuminuria with micral-test

56

4 Drug interferences in urine

Influencing factors

60

5 Automated urinalysis

Urine test strip systems

64

6 Urine microscopy in differential diagnosis

Microscope

70

7 Urine particles and formed elements

Blood cells

74

White blood cells

74

Red blood cells

76

Epithelial cells

78

Squamous epithelial cells

78

Renal tubular cells

79

Transitional epithelial cells

80

Atypical cells

81

Casts

82

Hyaline casts

82

Granular casts

84

Pigmented casts

85

Waxy casts

86

Red blood cell casts

87

White blood cell casts

88

Epithelial cell casts

88

Fatty casts

89

Cylindroids

90

Rare casts

90

Pseudo casts

91

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