RED BLOOD CELLS

• What do you call a cell that is NON-NUCLEATED BICONCAVE DISK?

  RBC
• Crenated: hypertonic urine
• Ghost cells: hypotonic urine
• Ghost cells: hemolyzed RBC
• DYSMORPHIC: glomerular membrane damage
• What urinary sediment have YEAST CELLS, OIL DROPLETS, and AIR BUBBLES as sources of error?

  RBC
• What is the REPORTING for RBC?

  Average/HPF
• What is the normal urinary RBC value?

  0-3/HPF
• Macroscopic hematuria: CLOUDY with a RED to BROWN color urine
• Macroscopic hematuria is indicative of what?

  advanced glomerular damage
• Range for MICROSCOPIC HEMATURIA?

  less than 100 HPF
• Microscopic hematuria is indicative of what?

  Glomerular disorders
• Macroscopic or Microscopic hematuria: RENAL CALCULI?

  Microscopic