What is renal biopsy?
Briefly, renal biopsy is pricking into kidney and take parts of renal cells by a special needle. We can judge specific pathological style through renal cells condition. why we do it? Generally, clinical symptoms appear will be diagnosed as nephritis and then we will take measures to anti-inflammation, anti-pressure and anti-coagulation. While not a long time later, we found the treatment is not ideal, proteinuria and occult blood don ’ t reduce, so we should further judge the specific nephritis, and then we need renal biopsy. What harms of renal biopsy have. Though kidney has strong comp capacity, self-healing capability is poor. Pricking kidney is easy to cause to serious infection. So for patients with obvious bleeding operation, severe hypertension, independent kidney and small kidney, renal biopsy is not suitable. In addition, patients with Renal cysts, hydronephrosis or empyema, renal abscess or perirenal abscess, chronic renal failure, excessive obesity, severe ascites...