Microscopic Hematuria?

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Specializes in Assisted Living, Med-Surg/CVA specialty.

What would be a cause of microscopic hematuria with no infection or abnormal BUN/Cr? There's also no recent trauma, exercise, sex, recent menstrual period, etc.

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Specializes in Pulmonary med/surg/telemetry.

Possibly renal calculi, bladder tumor???

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Specializes in Infection Preventionist/ Occ Health.

Glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, SLE, UTI, etc, etc, etc

Unfortunately this is a pretty non-specific finding.

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Specializes in Assisted Living, Med-Surg/CVA specialty.

Would a kidney tumor affect BUN/Cr?

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I've had microscopic hematuria my whole life. I have glomerularnephritis/ IgA nephropathy. HTH's

When I'm experiencing an infection of some sort, the blood is extremely visible.

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my md dx'd me w/idiopathic hematuria, yrs ago.

leslie

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