Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2023 Objective: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of 24-hour proteinuria estimation and urine dipstick-taking spot urine protein creatinine ratio as the gold standard in children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome.
Hina Fatima Yahya +5 more
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Effectiveness Of Urine Dipstick In Diagnosis Of Pre-eclampsia
Journal of Bahria University Medical and Dental College, 2021 Objective: To determine the efficacy of urine dipstick in Pre-eclamplasia. Study Design and Setting: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at the department of obstetrics & gynecology of a tertiary care hospital from May-2017 to September-2018 ...
Ferhat Uzair +4 more
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Optimization of urinary dipstick pH: Are multiple dipstick pH readings reliably comparable to commercial 24-hour urinary pH? [PDF]
Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2017 Purpose: Accurate measurement of pH is necessary to guide medical management of nephrolithiasis. Urinary dipsticks offer a convenient method to measure pH, but prior studies have only assessed the accuracy of a single, spot dipstick.
Joel E. Abbott +6 more
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2017 Aims: The aim of this is to evaluate the reliability of the urine dipstick test by patients' self-assessment for urinary tract infection (UTI) screening and to determine the validity of urine dipstick test.
Krit Duanngai +2 more
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Contamination rates of three urine-sampling methods to assess bacteriuria in pregnant women [PDF]
, 2013 OBJECTIVE: To estimate and compare contamination rates of three different urine-sampling methods in pregnant women to assess bacteriuria. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 113 pregnant women collected three different midstream urine samples ...
Visser, C.E. +13 more
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All that is blood is not schistosomiasis : experiences with reagent strip testing for urogenital schistosomiasis with special consideration to very-low prevalence settings [PDF]
, 2015 Reagent strip testing for microhaematuria has long been used for community diagnosis of Schistosoma haematobium. Sensitivities and specificities are reasonable, and hence, microhaematuria can serve as a proxy for S. haematobium infection.
Eliézer K. N’Goran +22 more
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Urinary ATP as an indicator of infection and inflammation of the urinary tract in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) is a neurotransmitter and inflammatory cytokine implicated in the pathophysiology of lower urinary tract disease. ATP additionally reflects microbial biomass thus has potential as a surrogate marker of urinary
Baio, Gianluca +10 more
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Evaluation of haem dipstick pad, urine protein, urine
, 2023 ObjectivesEvaluation of haem dipstick pad, urine protein, urine pH and urine protein:creatinine ratio results as a marker of bacteriuria in dogs and cats with inactive urine sediment.Materials and MethodsCats and dogs with contemporaneous urine dipstick,
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Reliability of dipstick assay in predicting urinary tract infection
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2015 Aims: Urine dipstick analysis is a quick, cheap and a useful test in predicting Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in hospitalized patients. Our aim is to evaluate the reliability (sensitivity) of urine dipstick analysis against urine culture in the diagnosis
Anith Kumar Mambatta +5 more
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A cross-sectional descriptive study of culture and urine dipstick methods for evaluation of urinary tract infection in children as a rapid screening tool [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Basic Research, 2023 Background: This study was designed to analyze the efficacy of a urine dipstick to detect urinary tract infection (UTI) in children and to correlate it with the urine culture.
Sajid Basha S Md +3 more
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