Must I Do Renal Biopsy if I Have Kidney Disease

Recently, many friends asked: "? I just found nephropathy, now in the hospital, the doctor asked to do renal biopsy, you say I do not do in the end."

What is a kidney biopsy?

Also known as renal biopsy biopsy, in simple terms, is to remove the part of the kidney tissue with the instrument, drawn by the Department of Pathology, pathology reports, so that you can determine the type of pathology of the kidney. So, the biggest role is to determine renal biopsy histological type, convenient for doctors to develop treatment programs.

What are the benefits of renal biopsy?

We usually call "nephrotic syndrome", "chronic nephritis", etc., are very general concept and specific histological type, you need to determine renal biopsy.

Such as nephrotic syndrome, it's just a series of clinical symptoms, collectively, can be expressed in many pathological types of nephrotic syndrome, such as some primary nephrotic: minimal change nephropathy, membranous nephropathy, mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, bureau stove segmental glomerulosclerosis, and some secondary nephropathy: systemic lupus erythematosus nephritis, diabetic nephropathy, hypertensive nephropathy and so on.

These pathological type of determination of the treatment plan is very important. Imagine, a membranous nephropathy patients and a minimal change nephropathy patients, although both nephrotic syndrome, but the focus of treatment is certainly not the same, if the same drugs are used, what consequences?

What are the drawbacks of renal biopsy?

The biggest drawbacks is the secondary damage to the kidneys, as well as infections of the troubles.

Had kidney disease, kidney had been damaged, while the renal biopsy surgery, will cause further damage to the kidneys. More importantly, whenever the surgery, there will be the risk of infection, and kidney patients fear most is infection.

In addition, renal biopsy accuracy is not so high. Millions of kidney nephron, puncture only remove a small part, this small part can not accurately reflect the entire kidney, there is no guarantee.

In addition to renal biopsy, we can not determine the pathological type? The answer of course is no. We Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital is a large hospital, we have the most advanced diagnostic equipment, such as:

Imported from Germany Roche COBAS8000 biochemical analysis of the immune system mode, only one blood, you can complete biochemical (such as liver function, kidney function, cardiovascular screening, immune function, cardiac function enzymes, electrolytes) and immunological tests (thyroid function, tumor markers, hormones, infectious diseases, cardiac, etc.).

Siemens BN II analyzer specific proteins, can through the patient's urine, which analyze the composition and the type of urinary protein, so they know the location and extent of kidney damage in patients. Early screening and efficacy evaluation for kidney disease, the distinction between glomerular injury or tubular injury.

Determine the pathological type of kidney disease treatment is significant, but through blood, urine can determine the type of pathology, the need for renal biopsy on very low. There is such a high-end instrumentation, why should we choose for our kidneys of renal biopsy hurt it?