Microscopic Urinalysis and Automated Flow Cytometry in a Nephrology Laboratory

[摘要] In their recent report, Ottiger and Huber (1) compared the UF-100 flow cytometer and the KOVA system and suggested an algorithm for the selection of samples for microscopic analysis. They found that urine samples from nephrology patients had higher microscopic review rates. We agree with them that automated systems foster rapid and standardized analysis of formed elements and offer significant labor savings (2)(3)(4), but we think that such a study may lead to different results in a laboratory of nephrology, where the prevalence of renal diseases and pathologic findings is higher.We collected 298 consecutive midstream urine samples from patients with known or suspected renal diseases. The samples were first examined with a Sysmex UF-50 (software version 0.5; TOA Medical Electronics) and then with a phase-contrast microscope (5), according to the European guidelines, at low (×100) and high (×400) magnification, by …

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