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    What's your diagnosis, based on this finding in urine microscopy?

    I'll post the correct answer in a day or three!

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    J.P.C. Peper, Jul 23, 2012
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    If anyone has an idea, there's still time.

    I'll post the correct answer in another three days.
     

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    Correct answer:

    This is a red cell cast.

    Red cell casts have high diagnostic value, because their presence proves the hematuria is of glomerular (and not for example interstitial) origin (e.g. associated with vasculitis, glomerulonephritis, malignant hypertension).
     

    J.P.C. Peper, Jul 29, 2012
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