Gender's equality in evaluation of urine particles: Results of a multicenter study of the Italian Urinalysis Group
| Autor: | Graziella Saccani, Maria Grazia Epifani, Agostino Tinello, Sara Valverde, Tatiana Zorzan, Giuseppe Lippi, Marco Caputo, Fabio Manoni, Gianluca Gessoni, Maria Alessio, Alberta Caleffi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male Urinalysis Adolescent Clinical Biochemistry Analytical chemistry Urine Biochemistry automated urine analyzers Young Adult Reference Values upper reference limits urine Medicine Humans Aged Sex Characteristics Chromatography Autoanalysis medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Biochemistry (medical) General Medicine Middle Aged Multicenter study Italy Reference values Female business |
| Zdroj: | Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry. 427 |
| ISSN: | 1873-3492 |
| Popis: | Objective We performed a multicenter study to calculate the upper reference limits (URL) for urine particle quantification in mid-stream samples by using automated urine analyzers. Design & methods Two laboratories tested 283 subjects using a Sysmex UF-100, two other laboratories tested 313 subjects using Sysmex UF-1000i, whereas two other laboratories tested 267 subjects using Iris IQ®200. Results The URLs of UF-100 in females and males were 7.8/μL and 6.7/μL for epithelial cells (EC), 11.1/μL and 9.9/μL for red blood cells (RBC), 10.2/μL and 9.7/μL for white blood cells (WBC), and 0.85/μL and 0.87/μL for cylinders (CAST). The URLs of UF-1000i in females and males were 7.6/μL and 7.1/μL for EC, 12.2/μL and 11.1/μL for RBC, 11.9/μL and 11.7/μL for WBC, and 0.88/μL and 0.86/μL for CAST. The URLs of Iris IQ®200 in females and males were 7.8/μL and 6.6/μL for EC, 12.4/μL and 10.1/μL for RBC, 10.9/μL and 9.9/μL for WBC, and 1.1/μL and 1.0/μL for CAST. Conclusion The URLs obtained in this study were comparable to the lowest values previously reported in the literature. Moreover, no gender-related difference was observed, and analyzer-specific upper reference limits were very similar. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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