urine dipstick is a useful and commonly used test because of its rapidity and low cost; however its diagnostic accuracy is debatable. this research were carried out to determine sensitivity, specificity and positive and negative predictive values of nitrite (nit) and leukocyte esterase (le) testing in relation to urine culture. this research was conducted on 100 hospitalized patients with clini...

QUESTIONS Is the novel in-vitro diagnostic device U-Test(®) reliable and secure for urine collection in diaper-wearing children and simultaneous evaluation of the urine collected for the presence of leucocytes and nitrite? METHODS The qualitative and functional performance of U-Test(®) was evaluated in a multicentre prospective clinical trial. The diagnostic performance of the novel in-vitro ...

Anatomic and physiological alterations during pregnancy predispose pregnant women to urinary tract infections (UTI). This study aimed to identify the accuracy of the simple urine test for UTI diagnosis in low-risk pregnant women. Diagnostic test performance was conducted in Botucatu, SP, involving 230 pregnant women, between 2006 and 2008. Results showed 10% UTI prevalence. Sensitivity, specifi...

BACKGROUND The patterns, performance characteristics, and yield of diagnostic tests ordered for the evaluation of acute kidney injury (AKI) have not been rigorously evaluated. METHODS We characterized the frequency of AKI diagnostic testing for urine, blood, radiology, and pathology tests in all adult inpatients who were admitted with or developed AKI (N = 4903 patients with 5731 AKI episodes...

PURPOSE To improve the specificity in prostate cancer diagnosis and to prevent unnecessary prostate biopsies, especially in the serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) "gray zone" between 3 and 15 ng/mL, the implementation of prostate cancer-specific markers is urgently needed. The recently discovered prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3) is such a promising prostate cancer marker. In a previous singl...

OBJECTIVE The first line-screening test for mucopolysaccharidosis is based on measurement of urinary glycosaminoglycans. The most reliable test for measurement of urine glycosaminoglycans is the 1,9-dimethyleneblue colorimetric assay. Biological markers are affected by ethnical factors, for this reason, the World Health Organization recommends that the diagnostic test characteristics should be ...

Background: Urinary tract infection is a common disease in childhood. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of urinary analysis, assess the role of urine culture in determining its necessity and evaluate etiologic agents and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children with urinary tract infection.Methods: Our study was made by evaluating the patients who applied to...

background: the current study was conducted to compare elisa with thin layer chromatography (tlc) methods for diagnosis of morphine in the urine. methods: positive urine samples for morphine confirmed by immunochromatographic strips were collected from the imam reza toxicology laboratory, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran in 2012 for the current study. then, the collated uri...