Haematuria Associated with Ureaplasma Infection in Sickle‐Cell Trait

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Abstract: Haematuria asociated with ureaplasma infection in sickle‐cell trait. J. A. Savige, D. F. Birch and K. F. Fairley, Aust. N.Z. J. Med., 1982, 12, pp. 293–295. Phase‐contrast microscopy of the urine of a young Greek woman with macroscopic haematuria showed sickling of the red blood cells. The diagnosis of sickle‐cell trait was confirmed with haemoglobin electropheresis, and an intravenous pyelogram demonstrated the typical medullary cavities seen in this disease. Urine collected from the left ureter, from which the haematuria originated, grew 106 Ureaplasma urealyticum/m/. With Doxycycline therapy the macroscopic haematuria and the sickled cells in the urine resolved, but red cell cas..