![]() ![]() Pediatric Annals 23(9): 459-460, 1994Īsymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy Screening urinalysis or urine culture?. Is screening urinalysis worthwhile in asymptomatic pediatric patients?. These data add to the evidence that screening urinalysis during infancy is unjustified supporting the AAP 2007 recommendations. Screening urinalysis results were abnormal in 6% of the babies, but in 86% of those, abnormalities were transient. Repeat urinalyses of these patients were normal. The other abnormalities (n = 5) detected were microscopic hematuria and proteinuria. All six babies who received treatment had normal ultrasound and two patients had a voiding cystourethrography, which were also normal. Six patients had positive culture results and were given antibiotic treatment. Of these 39 babies, 5 had a repeat urinalysis only, 18 had a repeat urinalysis with urine culture, and 16 had a urine culture alone. The most common abnormality (n = 39, 5,7%) was pyuria. A total of 683 infants met the inclusion criteria. Infants with an ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision) diagnostic code for routine child health exam (Z00.1) and a urinalysis requested with this code on the same date were included. We retrospectively reviewed results of screening urinalysis done in infants at 6-18 months of age who had regular care since birth at our centre. Thus, we aimed to investigate usefulness of screening urinalysis during infancy. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended to abandon this screening in 2007 but many paediatricians perform it at some point during childhood. The utility of screening urinalysis in asymptomatic children has been questioned based on studies done in school-age children or adolescents. ![]() Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 49(6): 458-461 Use of urinalysis as a screening tool for asymptomatic infantsīereket, G. ![]()
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