Blood in the urine, or hematuria, can signify cancer in some cases, but not always. Hematuria has many other causes, including urinary tract infections and kidney stones. A person should contact a ...

Hematuria is the presence of red blood cells (RBCs) in the urine. In microscopic hematuria, the urine appears normal to the naked eye, but examination under a microscope shows a high number of RBCs.

While microscopic blood in your urine may not be a medical emergency, visible blood in your urine is associated with a number of serious health issues, including kidney disease and urologic cancer.

Stress does not directly cause blood in urine. However, stress may make a person more prone to developing conditions that can cause it. Blood in urine, or hematuria, is a urologic condition affecting ...

Men and women with persistent microscopic hematuria are at an increased risk for the development of chronic kidney disease, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

One of the first signs of bladder cancer can be blood in the urine (hematuria). Investigators developed and analyzed the results of a streamlined and simplified DNA-based urine test to improve the ...

If blood is in your ureters or urethra long enough to start clotting, it’s possible it will come out in a worm-like shape. However, this is very rare. Having blood in your urine, called hematuria, ...

What constitutes a diagnosis of microscopic hematuria? If hematuria is discovered, what is the diagnostic workup? Read on to find out. Microscopic hematuria is a baffling condition frequently ...

Data, recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Disease (AJKD), from a large South Korean cohort show a five-fold increased risk of incident CKD for adults with persistent hematuria ...

Asymptomatic microscopic hematuria is an unreliable predictor of urothelial or renal malignancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 2630 patients. The study was published online January 9, 2013 ...

Kidney cancer often goes unnoticed compared to more widely discussed cancers such as breast, skin, or prostate cancer. The ...

A 22-year-old man presented for medical assessment in January after noticing blood in his urine. He explained that this had been going on for about 2 weeks, but had not caused any pain. He told ...