Kidney Biopsy - Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital

A sample of the kidney tissue (kidney biopsy) is sometimes required in cases in which the cause of the kidney disease is unclear. Usually, a biopsy can be collected with local anesthesia by introducing a needle through the skin into the kidney.
The biopsy is usually taken from behind (except in the place of a transplanted kidney) with a hollow needle being pushed through the anaesthetised skin and muscles into the kidney tissue to obtain a small sample. The patient is asked to hold their breath for a short time during the procedure to prevent the kidney from moving with the respiratory diaphragm.
Kidney biopsy has been an important means of diagnosing kidney disease, guiding treatment and judging prognosis, and plays an important role in judging the pathogens of glomerular diseases and development trend. Kidney biopsy is needed in the following situations:
1. Nephritis Syndrome: When the cause of Nephritis Syndrome is not clear, we want to make sure whether the disease occurs secondary to systematic diseases.
2. Renal function of glomerulonephritis patients declines fast, at the moment, kidney biopsy is needed to confirm the pathologic type of kidney damage.
3. Accelerated Nephritis Syndrome: When doing kidney biopsy, the state and severity of inflammation and immune deposition can be found, which is important to the early diagnosis and treatment. Primary accelerated nephritis syndrome has no typical manifestations or accelerated nephritis syndrome can not be cured in months or even with declined renal function, a kidney biopsy is needed.
4. Adult patients with primary Nephrotic Syndrome had better do a kidney biopsy to make sure the type of tissue before using hormone lest there may produce some side effects because of blind use of hormone. Especially when there is no effect with hormone, patients should take a kidney biopsy.
5. Patients with hematuria can consider kidney biopsy when diagnosis can not be made even exclusion of non-glomerular hematuria after various tests. Patients with persistent hematuria but no clinical manifestations or patients with hematuria and Proteinuria or patients with more than 1 gram of 24-hour Proteinuria quantitative ness should take a kidney biopsy.
6. Merely Proteinuria lasts for a long time but without any symptoms with patients. In this situation, kidney biopsy can be used to make sure the pathologic types so that it will be helpful to choose medicines and judge prognosis.
7. Patients with Lupus Nephritis, Renal Hypertension, Acute and Chronic Renal Failure can take a kidney biopsy when the cause can not be diagnosed.
When one of the situations listed above happens, patients had better to go to the hospital to do a kidney biopsy so as to make a specific diagnosis early.

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