introduction: urine morphine test, in several countries is the most primarily available qualitative test for detecting opioid abusers. since the users of illicit drugs attempt to defeat urine tests and there are also plenty of claims that usage of hd (high dose) contraceptive pills can result in false-negative results, we decided to design the present study to investigate the probable in vitro ...

INTRODUCTION Proteinuria is an important diagnostic component of preeclampsia. We prospectively compared the results of spot urine protein-creatinine (P/C) ratio with 24-hour urine protein excretion in women with preeclampsia. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 81 pregnant women with preeclampsia were prospectively studied for proteinuria. Urine P/C ratio was determined in a spot mid-stream uri...

Introduction: Urine morphine test, in several countries is the most primarily available qualitative test for detecting opioid abusers. Since the users of illicit drugs attempt to defeat urine tests and there are also plenty of claims that usage of HD (high dose) contraceptive pills can result in false-negative results, we decided to design the present study to investigate the probable in vit...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic value of nitrite test in comparison with urine culture (U/C) results in patients with Urinary tract infection (UTI) symptoms.Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 203 patients with UTI symptoms. Middle urine sample was taken into sterile plastic containers, and simultaneously the urine sample and the nitrite...