Abstract
In order to determine whether patients with microhaematuria seen in general practice should be followed up in order to establish an aetiological diagnosis, a study was performed in a general practice in Vienna. Over a period of 2 1/2 years 87 patients with haematuria were found by a systematic procedure among a clientele of 2500 persons. This gives a one-year incidence rate of about seven per 1 000. By systematic investigation, three main groups of patients could be found: patients with microhaematuria and additional leukocyturia and bacteriuria (40%), most of them needing no further investigation after treatment of their urine infection; patients with microhaematuria showing different degrees of pathological changes after a complete urological check-up (43%); patients where the complete checkup did not reveal any aetiological diagnosis (13%).
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