{"id":2520,"date":"2009-03-05T18:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/nefbiopsy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:10:31","slug":"nefbiopsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/nefbiopsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Indications for Percutaneous Renal Biopsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Indications for percutaneous needle biopsy include<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Unexplained acute renal failure or chronic renal insufficiency;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Acute nephritic syndromes;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Unexplained proteinuria and hematuria;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Previously identified and treated lesions to plan future therapy;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Systemic diseases associated with kidney dysfunction, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Goodpasture&#8217;s syndrome, and Wegener&#8217;s granulomatosis, to confirm the extent of renal involvement and to guide management;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">Suspected transplant rejection, to differentiate it from other causes of acute renal failure; and<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">To guide treatment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Relative contraindications include a solitary or ectopic kidney (exception: transplant allografts), horseshoe kidney, uncorrected bleeding disorder, severe uncontrolled hypertension, renal infection, renal neoplasm, hydronephrosis, end-stage renal disease (ESRD), congenital anomalies, multiple cysts, or uncooperative patient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Reisman L, Dikman S, Churg J, Kupfer S. Renal biopsy: why and when. Mt Sinai J Med. 1996 May-Sep;63(3-4):178-90.<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8692164\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fuiano G, Mazza G, Comi N, Caglioti A, De Nicola L, Iodice C, Andreucci M, Andreucci VE.\u00a0Current indications for renal biopsy: a questionnaire-based survey. Am J Kidney Dis. 2000 Mar;35(3):448-57.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/10692270\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: May 28, 2006<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[473],"tags":[1589,1590,74,73,1353,1235,1240,199],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nephrology","tag-biopsia","tag-biopsy","tag-indicaciones","tag-indications","tag-nephrology","tag-percutanea","tag-percutaneous","tag-renal"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}