How do you work up and manage patients with persistent cloudy and mucus-like urine, but no obvious cause on imaging or urinalysis?
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Urology · Baylor College of Medicine
Challenging, but it greatly depends on whether the patient is symptomatic or not.
Few possible etiologies:
- Phosphaturia
- Vaginal discharge, bacterial vaginosis
- Sterile pyuria
- Sexually transmitted disease (STD)
- Genitourinary tuberculosis (TB)
If it is coming from the urine, the urinalysis (UA) shoul...