5820-6

WBC casts [#/area] in Urine sediment by Microscopy low power field

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Term Description

Casts are easily seen in low power field but can exceed size of HPF
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Part Descriptions

LP16862-2   Leukocyte casts
The presence of white blood cells within or upon casts strongly suggests pyelonephritis, a direct infection of the kidney. They may also be seen in inflammations, such as acute allergic interstitial nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, or post-streptococcal acute glomerulonephritis. White cells sometimes can be difficult to discern from epithelial cells and may require special staining. Differentiation from simple clumps of white cells can be made by the presence of hyaline matrix. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, White blood cell casts

LP20670-3   Leukocyte
Leukocytes or white blood cells (WBCs) are immune cells that fight infection, neoplasms and other inflammatory conditions, and mediate allergic responses. There are five types of WBCs normally present in the circulation that are all derived from a similar stem cell in the bone marrow. The five type of WBCs are divided into two groups based on the presence or absence of granules in the cytoplasm. The granulocytes include the neutrophils, basophils and eosinophils. The non-granulocytes include the lymphocytes and the monocytes. The neutrophils fight infection by ingesting and digesting bacteria. Eosinophils and basophils respond to allergic reactions and are capable of ingesting antigen-antibody complexes. Monocytes phagocytose bacteria and release interferon to stimulate the immune system. Lymphocytes are divided into T-cells and B-cells. T-cell immunity is cellular and involves the activation of phagocytes and B-cell immunity uses antibodies to fight infection. Both elevated and low leukocyte counts can be markers of infection and malignancy, and low leukocyte counts are associated with a variety of primary and secondary immunodeficiencies, depending on the WBC type(s) that are out of range. (Mosby's manual of diagnostic and laboratory tests, Kathleen Deska Pagana; Timothy James Pagana, Elsevier St. Louis, Mo ©2010) Source: Regenstrief LOINC

Fully-Specified Name

Component

Leukocyte casts

Property

Naric

Time

Pt

System

Urine sed

Scale

Qn

Method

Microscopy.light.LPF

Additional Names

Short Name

WBC Casts #/area UrnS LPF

Display Name

WBC casts LM.LPF (Urine sed) [#/Area]

Consumer Name Alpha Get Info

White blood cell casts, Urine sediment

Basic Attributes

Class

UA

Type

Laboratory

First Released

Version 1.0

Last Updated

Version 2.73

Order vs. Observation

Observation

Common Test Rank Get Info

350

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Related Names

• #/area
• Cast
• Kidney
• Leuc
• Leuk
• Leukocytes
• Lkcs
• LM
• Micro
• Micros
• Microscopic
• Nephrology
• Number areic
• Point in time
• QNT
• Quan
• Quant
• Quantitative
• Random
• Renal
• UA
• UR
• URINALYSIS
• Urine sediment
• Urn
• UrnS
• WBC
• WBC Casts
• WBCs
• White blood cell
• White blood cells

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