Point-of-Care Photomicroscopy of Urine

Share Your Passion for Nephrology: Ten Tips to Invigorate Attending Rounds and Precepting Sessions

“…32 This is an opportunity to view the gamut of findings from hyaline casts to crystals and to explain to trainees why urinary acanthocytes are a good indicator for the presence of glomerular bleeding. Share with them the carefully crafted study in which urine sediment findings from the full spectrum of renal parenchymal diseases were compared, demonstrating that those with glomerular bleeding were most likely to have acanthocytes 33 and, by way of comparison, show that urine of all types (concentrated or dilute, low or high pH) supplemented with a drop of medical student blood does not have these changes.…”

Common digital camera and urinary sediment analysis: a tool to be explored

“…Our experience follows the report of Mutter and Brown [ 2 ] showing that even with limited technology, it is possible to obtain images of urinary sediment and improve the knowledge of the laboratory personnel.…”

Smart teledermatopathology: a feasibility study of novel, high‐value, portable, widely accessible and intuitive telepathology methods using handheld electronic devices

“…One group developed point-of-care photomicroscopy of urine sediment specimens and used this as a teaching tool. 6 Other groups have used electronic tablets to facilitate teaching of anatomy 7 as well as pathology in low-resource countries. 8 Most recently, video chat software (FaceTime) has been used to facilitate clinical teledermatology.…”