What does renal biopsy mean

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Before I went to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination, it was found that there were 3 cases of occult blood in the urine. The doctor said that I had kidney disease. Later, I took medicine for treatment for a period of time, and the situation was serious. When I went to the reexamination, the doctor asked me to do a kidney biopsy. Now let's learn what the next renal biopsy means.

What does renal biopsy mean

First: if you want to make a complete diagnosis of nephritis, you need to check the renal biopsy to see if there are changes in nephritis. Renal biopsy is the gold standard for the diagnosis of nephritis. If the result of the examination is nephritis, the nature of nephritis can be generally determined and the prognosis of the disease can be judged.

Second: renal biopsy is the most clear means of pathological diagnosis of kidney disease, but the history of kidney disease is relatively long, now do renal puncture clear pathology, can only judge the prognosis, has little significance to the clinical guidance of medication. The leakage of red blood cells is mainly the damage of renal mesangial cells, which can be treated mainly by traditional Chinese medicine, adjusting human immunity, improving renal circulation, and repairing renal inherent cells.

Third: renal biopsy, from the pathological further diagnosis, you may suffer from IgA nephropathy, often hematuria, proteinuria, western medicine treatment mainly hormones, ACEI drugs, immunosuppressants, cytotoxic drugs, puncture results can guide the choice of the above drug treatment.

matters needing attention

In order to avoid the risk of bleeding, the patients should rest in bed for 24 hours.