title: [Clinical significance of new urine red blood cell parameter in different kinds of glomerulonephritis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical value of new kinds of urinary erythrocyte morphology parameter in discriminating different pathology types of glomerulonephritis.
  
  
  METHODS
  All of the 52 urine samples were from glomerulonephritis patients who had been diagnosed by renal biopsy results. The change of the percentage of acanthocytes, the size of RBC, the shape of RBC between the primary glomerulonephritis (39 cases) and secondary glomerulonephritis (13 cases) urine were detected by AVE-764 fully automatic urine cell analyzer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Acanthocytes could be found in both primary glomerulonephritis and secondary glomerulonephritis. Of the patients whose acanthocytes percentages above 10%, 94.1% had primary glomerulonephritis and 5.9% had secondary glomerulonephritis. The picture of size-shape phase were classified as strip-type, inverted triangle-type and hanging tail-type. 95.2% Strip-type cases were from primary glomerulonephritis patients. Triangle-typenormally cases were all from primary glomerulonephritis patients. Hanging tail-type cases were all from secondary glomerulonephritis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  High acanthocytes percentage is most common in primary glomerulonephritis, going with the size and shape of RBC can be useful in the differential diagnosis of different pathology types of glomerulonephritis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory in South Building, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
authors.forename: Muye
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ping
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory in South Building, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory in South Building, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
authors.forename: Xinli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory in South Building, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China; Email: yulongc@263.net.
authors.forename: Yulong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cong
mesh_terms: D000050:Acanthocytes; D002469:Cell Separation; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004909:Erythrocyte Indices; D004912:Erythrocytes; D005921:Glomerulonephritis; D006801:Humans; D009392:Nephrectomy; D016482:Urinalysis