For patients with microscopic hematuria, do you prefer a lab submitted urinalysis sample undergoes automated urine analysis or microscopic analysis by laboratory staff for quantification of red blood cells?
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Nephrology · Rush Medical College
If quantification is really the question here, and not RBC casts or acanthocytes, I don't know if it really matters, I use both the dipstick blood and the microscopic data for that. A bigger problem is discordance, dipstick blood and minimal cells, which on an exam is pigmenturia but in real life is...