Blood in urine (hematuria) in males has many causes, including an enlarged prostate, urinary tract infection, kidney stones, and injury. Hematuria may be visible to the naked eye or only be ...

The most common symptom is blood in the urine (hematuria), which may appear pink, red, or brown. Other signs include frequent ...

Cystoscopy is the reference standard for bladder cancer detection, and is also used to monitor patients with a history of the disease. The procedure is, however, invasive, and some patients find ...

Grossfeld GD, Litwin MS, Wolf JS, et al.: Evaluation of asymptomatic microscopic hematuria in adults: the American Urological Association best practice policy—part I: definition, detection ...

The diagnostic yield in adults increases with age and is higher for gross hematuria (5 to 23 percent) than for microscopic hematuria (up to 14 percent), and for higher grades of bleeding than for ...

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Bladder cancer often begins with subtle symptoms that are easy to overlook. The most common early sign is blood in the urine, a condition known as hematuria. In many cases, the blood may not always be ...

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Patients with clear evidence of glomerular hematuria do not need to be evaluated for potentially serious urologic disease. Signs of glomerular bleeding include red cell casts (essentially ...

A recent study from Johns Hopkins University has raised concerns about rosuvastatin, a widely used drug for lowering ...

Statins are widely used to lower high cholesterol, and many people rely on rosuvastatin, a popular medication in this drug ...