Prevalence of microhematuria in renal colic and urolithiasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Minotti, Bruno; Treglia, Giorgio; Pascale, Mariarosa; Ceruti, Samuele; Cantini, Laura; Anselmi, Luciano; Saporito, Andrea

doi:10.1186/s12894-020-00690-7

BMC Urology

Table 2 Data on microhematuria in patients presenting with suspected acute renal colic at the emergency department

From: Prevalence of microhematuria in renal colic and urolithiasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors	Microhematuria test	Type of hematuria	Positive microhematuria definition	No. patients with microhematuria	Microhematuria prevalence
Kim et al. [13]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	750	750/798 (94%)
Desai et al. [14]	Urinalysis	Microscopic or macroscopic	Positive urinalysis for RBCs or for blood	245	245/350 (70%)
Türk and Ün [15]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	NR	432	432/516 (83.7%)
Shrestha et al. [16]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 3 or more RBCs	70	70/201 (34.8%)
Odoemene et al. [17]	Urinalysis	Microscopic or macroscopic	NR	62	62/69 (89.9%)
Mefford et al. [18]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	321	321/393 (81.7%)
Rapp et al. [19]	Urinalysis	Microscopic or macroscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	412	412/613 (67.2%)
Park et al. [20]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	NR	90	90/103 (87.4%)
Hernandez et al. [21]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Hematuria on urine dipstick	332	332/536 (61.9%)
Fukuhara et al. [22]	Urinalysis or urine dipstick	Microscopic or macroscopic	Occult blood in urine	352	352/491 (71.7%)
Dorfman et al. [23]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 5 or more RBCs/HPF	254	254/339 (74.9%)
Yan et al. [24]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	NR	451	451/565 (79.8%)
Lee et al. [25]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	NR	1980	1980/2218 (89.3%)
Hall et al. [26]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic or macroscopic	Scores of 1+ to 3+ on urine dipstick or documented frank hematuria	391	391/513 (76.2%)
Zwank et al. [27]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	RBCs present	66	66/93 (71%)
Abdel-Gawad et al. [28]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	835	835/939 (88.9%)
Inci et al. [7]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 5 or more RBCs/HPF	46	46/83 (55.4%)
Lallas et al. [29]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	18	18/32 (56.3%)
	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Trace or scores of 1+ to 4+ on urine dipstick	21	21/32 (65.6%)
Perez et al. [30]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	NR	132	132/146 (90.4%)
Xafis et al. [31]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 5 or more RBCs/HPF	396	396/638 (62.1%)
Serinken et al. [32]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 5 or more RBCs/HPF	194	194/235 (82.6%)
Cupisti et al. [33]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	NR	592	592/696 (85.1%)
Matani and Al-Ghazo [34]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	50	50/75 (66.7%)
Kartal et al. [35]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 10 or more RBCs/HPF	146	146/227 (64.3%)
Kirpalani et al. [36]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Positive urine dipstick	228	228/299 (76.3%)
Gaspari and Horst [37]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 5 or more RBCs/HPF	82	82/110 (74.5%)
Argyropoulos et al. [8]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Scores of 1+ to 3+ on urine dipstick	566	566/609 (92.9%)
Unal et al. [38]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	100	100/137 (73%)
Tack et al. [39]	Urinalysis or Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Presence of 2 or more RBCs/HPF or positive dipstick	77	77/106 (72.6%)
Kobayashi et al. [40]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Scores of 1+ to 3+ on urine dipstick	382	382/537 (71.1%)
	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 5 or more RBCs/HPF	350	350/537 (65.2%)
Eray et al. [41]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 6 or more RBCs/HPF	45	45/20 (69.2%)
Luchs et al. [42]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 10 or more RBCs/HPF	492	492/587 (83.8%)
Hamm et al. [45]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of more than 20 mg/dl hemoglobin	66	66/109 (60.6%)
Li et al. [44]	Urinalysis or Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Presence of any number of RBCs/HPF or trace / scores of 1+ to 3+ on urine dipstick	360	360/397 (90.7%)
Hamm et al. [45]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	99	99/125 (79.2%)
Richards and Christman [46]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	156	156/185 (84.3%)
Bove et al. [47]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Positive urine dipstick	130	130/180 (72.2%)
	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 6 or more RBCs/HPF	128	128/195 (65.6%)
	Urinalysis or Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Presence of 2 or more RBCs/HPF or positive urine dipstick	153	153/195 (78.5%)
Ooi et al. [9]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Scores of 1+ or more on urine dipstick	114	114/122 (93.4%)
	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 6 or more RBCs/HPF in males or of 10 or more RBCs/HPF in females	77	77/122 (63.1%)
Ghali et al. [48]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	81	81/125 (64.8%)
Eskelinen et al. [49]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 11 or more RBCs/HPF	43	43/57 (75.4%)
Gimondo et al. [50]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic or macroscopic	Positive urine dipstick	56	56/76 (73.7%)
Boyd and Gray [51]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Positive urine dipstick	45	45/52 (86.5%)
Press and Smith [52]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 1 or more RBCs/HPF	78	78/109 (71.6%)
Chia et al. [53]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 6 or more RBCs/HPF in males or of 10 or more RBCs/HPF in females	181	181/294 (61.6%)
Elton et al. [54]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 4 or more RBCs/HPF	194	194/275 (70.5%)
Stewart et al. [55]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 3 or more RBCs/HPF	132	132/160 (82.5%)
Freeland [56]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Trace or scores of 1+ to 3+ on urine dipstick	102	102/134 (76.1%)
Dunn et al. [57]	Urinalysis	Microscopic	Presence of 3 or more RBCs/HPF	62	62/76 (81.6%)
Bishop [58]	Urine dipstick	Microscopic	Positive urine dipstick	44	44/50 (88%)

Abbreviations (alphabetical order): NR not reported, HPF High power Field, RBC Red Blood Cell

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