Accuracy of absolute neutrophil count as a screening test for urinary tract infection among pediatric patients age 2 to 24 months
Publication Date
2015
Document Type
Research
Abstract
A cross-sectional criterion study. Pediatric patients between the ages of 2-24 months, diagnosed with urinary tract infection. Majority of the patients diagnosed with UTI were aged 2-6 months, with slight female predominance. Chief complaints were fever, vomiting, diarrhea, dysuria and seizure. Associated symptoms were poor feeding and irritability. Pyuria and bacteriuria were mostly seen, and only 1 patients had hematuria. Hematologic profile showed leukocytosis, increased segmenter counts and lymphocytosis. Band cells were found only in 80 (47.62%) patients. This study showed increased in the specificity of ANC when combined with pyuria and bacteriuria and a 100% specificity of ANC when combined with hematuria. However, the sensitivity and diagnostic accuracy of ANC and all other confounding variable were low.
APA Citation
Lazo, Ma. Lizette G., "Accuracy of absolute neutrophil count as a screening test for urinary tract infection among pediatric patients age 2 to 24 months" (2015). Resident Research. 321.
https://greenprints.dlshsi.edu.ph/resident-research/321