CASTS - MATCHING QUESTION

• Proteinuria

  • Precipitation in tubules

    • Hyaline Casts (associate with proteinurea)

• Glomerular loss of RBC's

  • RBC casts

    • Hemoglobin casts (associated with exercise)

• Loss of WBCs in the tubule

  • Leukocyte (pus) casts (associated with infection usually)

• Epithelial desquamation

  • Cellular Casts

    • Finely or coarsely granular casts

      • Waxy casts (most mature)

You can tell the maturity of a Cast by the way it looks

• More mature more intact

• Less intact less mature

Category: Medicine Notes