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Hemoglobinuria
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hemoglobinuria [‚hē·mə‚glō·bə′nu̇r·ē·ə]
(medicine)
A pathological condition in which the urine contains hemoglobin.

Hemoglobinuria 

the presence of hemoglobin in urine. It usually is a result of the intravascular decomposition of red blood cells following the transfusion of incompatible blood, the effect of some chemical and biological poisons and drugs that cannot be tolerated or of any of several causative agents of infections, extensive injuries, and so on.



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Oncotic pressure is the osmotic pressure due to the presence of proteins and is an important determinant of the distribution of extracellular fluid between the intravascular and extravascular compartments.
2,4) Although the larynx and hypopharynx are rarely affected, extravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia of the larynx has been reported.
5) Sickle cell disease usually causes extravascular hemolysis, rather than intravascular hemolysis, as the abnormal sickle-shaped RBCs are hemolyzed in the spleen.
 
 
 
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