Comparison of the Manual And Otomated System For Microscopic Examination of Urine

Nowadays, it is quite common in medical laboratories to use devices with a fixed slide system under the microscope objective for microscopic examination of urine, which eliminates the hassle of preparing slides between slides for microscopic examination of urine and standardizes the sediment volume. Objective: In our study, we compared the microscopic analysis results obtained with the Sysmex UF-100 device, one of the fully automated systems, and the DiaSys R/S 2003 device with a fixed slide (OSA) system. We aimed to identify the parameters that can be used interchangeably and give results that support each other, to reveal inconsistent results, if any, and to determine the method that we can obtain more quantitatively consistent results. Method: The data obtained from the analysis results for both systems were analyzed into the SPSS 22.0 program. Descriptive values were expressed as number (n), mean (Mean), standard deviation (SD). Continuous variables were compared with the Wicoxan Signed Ranks test because they did not fit the normal distribution. p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: According to the findings between UF-100 and OSA, we found that the analysis results for erythrocyte, leukocyte, epithelial cell parameters were consistent with each other, but not for cilia (cast). Keywords: UF-100, DiaSys R/S 2003, urine analysis, manual microscopy