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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
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Challenging, but it greatly depends on whether the patient is symptomatic or not.

Few possible etiologies:

  1. Phosphaturia
  2. Vaginal discharge, bacterial vaginosis
  3. Sterile pyuria
  4. Sexually transmitted disease (STD)
  5. Genitourinary tuberculosis (TB)

If it is coming from the urine, the urinalysis (UA) shoul...

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