Lab test interpretation

High Urine Specific Gravity: Hypersthenuria and Glucosuria

Measuring urine specific gravity with a urinometer: a value of 1051 with 12 mmol/L glucosuria. Causes of pronounced hypersthenuria in urine analysis.

Cylinder with urinometer: measuring urine specific gravity with a value of 1051
Cylinder with urinometer: measuring urine specific gravity with a value of 1051

Urine specific gravity: 1051, patient 27 years old, urine glucose 12 mmol/L. What is the highest specific gravity you have measured?

🙏 This publication was kindly provided by medical laboratory technician Anastasia Yasyreva, GBUZ PK PCRB, Perm