The clinical significance of eosinophils in urine

Yamada, T.; Murayama, T.; Taguchi, H.

Hinyokika Kiyo. Acta Urologica Japonica 38(2): 173-176

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0018-1994
PMID: 1561951
Document Number: 393841
The clinical significance of eosinophils in urine was examined. Eosinophils were found in 9 out of 10 cases of interstitial cystitis, and there were more than 50 eosinophils in 50 fields in 6 of these cases. Although the number of eosinophils almost correlated with the number of leucocytes, the relationship between eosinophils and leucocytes in interstitial cystitis was different in acute and chronic cystitis. Since urinary eosinophils could be observed in cases of interstitial cystitis in which leucocytes were as low as 3 to 10 per field and the number of eosinophils was not decreased by chemotherapy, the urinary eosinophils in interstitial cystitis may be of allergic significance and reflect eosinophilic infiltration into the bladder wall.

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