Patient's question:
Detailed medical condition and consultation purpose: Are there any requirements for doing a urinalysis for red blood cell morphology at the hospital? Can it be done whenever the patient requests it? Is it expensive? Is it complicated?Medical history: Acute pyelonephritis
Doctor's answer:
When red blood cells pass through the pores of the glomerular basement membrane, their size, shape, or hemoglobin content may change, resulting in abnormal red blood cells such as wrinkled red blood cells, large red blood cells, cytoplasmic bulbous protrusions, fine granules inside, broken cell membranes, and partial loss of cytoplasm. We define these as glomerular red blood cells. Since bleeding in the areas below the glomeruli and along the urinary tract is often caused by capillary rupture, the red blood cells may be completely normal in.