Proteinuria, Hematuria, and Urinary Tract Infections in Adolescence.
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in adolescents and young adults. It is also not unusual to encounter occult blood or protein in the urine of an otherwise healthy adolescent, although neither finding is as common as UTI. This chapter assists the adolescent medicine practitioner in the diagnosis and treatment of UTI, in any subsequent urinary tract evaluation that may be indicated, and in the identification of patients in whom proteinuria or hematuria is more likely to reflect the presence of underlying renal disease and for whom further evaluation or referral may be indicated.
Polinsky
MS
Section of Nephrology, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Erie Avenue at Front Street, Philadelphia, PA 19134-1095, USA.
Kaiser
BA