Ultrasound Findings Of Patients With Microscopic Hematuria Considering The Patients' History Through Questionnaire

Abstract

Purpose: This study was performed to determine the sonographic findings of urinary system to clarify the prevalence of disease as determined by age, sex and the degree of haematuria at presentation in patients with microscopic hematuria attending to Amiralmomenin Hospital (Tehran, Iran) in 2016 and 2017.

Methods: In this observational study that was performed as a cross-sectional comparative descriptive survey, 216 consecutive patients with microscopic hematuria attending to Amiralmomenin Hospital in 2016 and 2017 were enrolled and the sonographic findings of urinary system were determined.

Results: The findings revealed that sonography was positive in 98.1%. The findings were as stone, cyst plus stone, and others in 80.7%, 13.7%, and 5.6%, respectively. The findings were in kidney, ureter, and bladder in 84.8%, 1.9%, 1.9% and 11.4% more than one location, respectively. It was in left side, right side, and bilateral in 23.7%, 19.3%, and 57%, respectively. Age was the only related factor and was higher in those with mass.

Conclusions: According to the obtained results in this study, it may be concluded that majority of patients with microscopic hematuria would have positive sonography that stone is the most common.