{"id":351,"date":"2022-10-24T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readlabresults.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2022-10-24T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:10:36","slug":"10-15-hpf-rbc-in-urine-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readlabresults.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/24\/10-15-hpf-rbc-in-urine-means\/","title":{"rendered":"10-15\/hpf rbc in urine means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10-15\/hpf rbc in urine means<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Red blood cells (RBCs), also known as erythrocytes, deliver oxygen to the tissues in your body and release carbon dioxide into your lungs to exhale. The presence of RBCs in the urine, which is medically termed hematuria, is not normal and can be a sign of an underlying health condition.<\/p>\n<p>What does hpf mean?<\/p>\n<p>HPF, or \u201cHigh Power Field\u201d refers to the field of view under the maximum magnification power of the objective being used.\u00a0In fact, each microscope has two types of lenses; the objective, and the eyepiece. The magnification power of the microscope can be calculated by multiplying the magnification power of the eyepiece by the magnification power of the objective lens.<\/p>\n<p>So if an objective lens with a magnification of 10x is used with a 40x magnification eyepiece lens, it will display the sample image 400 times larger, abbreviated as hpf (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shanghai-optics.com\/about-us\/resources\/technical-articles\/introduction-to-microscopes-and-objective-lenses\/#:~:text=Two%20major%20lens%20components%E2%80%94the,depending%20on%20the%20microscope%20setup.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>10-15\/hpf rbc in urine means<\/p>\n<p>According to what we explained above, 10-15\/hpf rbc in urine means that 10-15 red blood cells were found in your urine at 400x magnification. The presence of this amount of RBCs in urine is not normal and can be due to glomerular\u00a0or non-glomerular causes.<\/p>\n<p>Some common glomerular causes are:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Alport syndrome<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Thin basement membrane disease<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Types of glomerulonephritis<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 nephropathy<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Lupus nephritis<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Goodpasture syndrome<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Nephrotic syndrome<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Polycystic kidney disease<\/p>\n<p>Non-glomerular causes include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Febrile illness<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0Exercise<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0Menstruation<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Nephrolithiasis<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Cystitis, urethritis, prostatitis<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Malignancy: renal cell carcinoma, bladder cancer, prostate cancer<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Genitourinary mucosal injury by instrumentation<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0Trauma<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Bleeding tendency: thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy, use of blood thinners, hematological disorders like sickle cell anemia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK568752\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>If your test result is \u201c10-15\/hpf rbc\u201d, you may need further tests to figure out what is causing it.<\/p>\n<p>* You can <a href=\"https:\/\/readlabresults.com\/index.php\/read-and-interpretation-lab-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enter your lab test results online<\/a> and get a personalized interpretation, including your condition in each test, definition, reasons for increased or decreased results, dietary and lifestyle recommendations, potential treatments, drug interactions, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shanghai-optics.com\/about-us\/resources\/technical-articles\/introduction-to-microscopes-and-objective-lenses\/#:~:text=Two%20major%20lens%20components%E2%80%94the,depending%20on%20the%20microscope%20setup.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.shanghai-optics.com\/about-us\/resources\/technical-articles\/introduction-to-microscopes-and-objective-lenses\/#:~:text=Two%20major%20lens%20components%E2%80%94the,depending%20on%20the%20microscope%20setup.<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK568752\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK568752\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10-15\/hpf rbc in urine means Red blood cells (RBCs), also known as erythrocytes, deliver oxygen to the tissues in your body and release carbon dioxide into<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urinalysis","tag-urinalysis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v23.0) - 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