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01-12-2014 | Meeting abstract
Red urine in children
Authors:
Carmine Pecoraro, Ilaria Luongo
Published in:
Italian Journal of Pediatrics
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
Red Urine (RU) is an uncommon finding in an unselected population of children; its prevalence was reported as 0.13 % based on a retrospective USA review of children. However, RU may signify disorders ranging from benign conditions such as medications and food coloring to more serious conditions such as urinary tract infection, hereditary cystic renal diseases and glomerulonephritis. In the clinical approach and management of these children, it is important to firstly differentiate true gross hematuria from non-gross hematuria, and subsequently dissecting out the different causes of gross hematuria (GH). …