Effects and side effects of kidney biopsy

In medicine, the symptoms of many diseases are not obvious, and it is difficult to clearly identify the disease and prescribe the right medicine, so specific means of diagnosing the disease are needed. Renal biopsy is one of them. Because the causes of kidney disease in the human body are very complicated, renal biopsy is needed to clearly diagnose the cause of the disease. Therefore, this method has also become a basis and means for Chinese medicine to diagnose the condition of the disease. So what are the specific effects and side effects of renal biopsy?

Renal puncture is a renal biopsy, also known as renal puncture biopsy. Due to the wide variety of kidney diseases and the complex causes and pathogenesis, the clinical manifestations of many kidney diseases are not completely consistent with the histological changes of the kidneys. For example, the clinical manifestation is nephrotic syndrome, and the pathology can present as various changes such as minimal lesions, mild lesions, mild mesangial proliferation, membranous nephropathy, membranoproliferative nephritis, focal segmental sclerosis, etc. The treatment plans and the development of the disease are also very different.

Renal puncture biopsy can more accurately determine the type of renal pathology suffered by kidney patients, so as to ensure that the treatment is targeted and correct. Moreover, renal puncture biopsy can more accurately assess the prognosis of patients with renal failure.

Although renal puncture biopsy plays a great role in the diagnosis and treatment of renal failure, it is not harmless. Generally speaking, renal puncture will bring the following side effects to the body:

1. Pain will definitely occur, usually a slight dull pain at the biopsy site, which usually disappears within a few days. It may be related to the puncture damaging the soft tissue of the waist. In rare cases, renal colic may occur.

2. Infection: It is often related to improper disinfection during puncture or existing renal infection.

3. Renal laceration: It is a serious complication, which is mostly caused by the moment when the puncture needle enters the kidney, the kidney patient holds his breath improperly, talks, coughs or moves the body, causing the kidney to change its position and be scratched by the needle. It manifests as severe pain, severe hematuria, or the formation of a large hematoma around the kidney, and a rapid drop in blood pressure and hemoglobin.

4. Hematuria: Almost all kidney patients will have microscopic hematuria after renal biopsy. A small number of patients with severe bleeding (macroscopic hematuria or perinephric hematoma, etc.) require blood transfusion or even surgery to stop bleeding (surgery or intervention) and should be closely observed.