What does kidney puncture mean

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My uncle's kidney is not very good all the time. Recently he got kidney disease. He was depressed all day. When he went to the hospital for examination, the doctor suggested a renal puncture. He had never done it before. Let me tell you what the meaning of renal puncture is.

What does kidney puncture mean

First, renal biopsy is renal biopsy. Due to the variety of kidney diseases, the etiology and pathogenesis are complex, the clinical manifestations of many kidney diseases are not completely consistent with the histological changes of the kidney. For example, the clinical manifestations of nephrotic syndrome, pathology can be presented as small lesions, mild lesions, mild mesangial hyperplasia, membranous nephropathy, membranous proliferative nephritis, focal segmental sclerosis and other changes, the treatment and the development of the disease results are also very different.

Second, renal biopsy is a test item, not a treatment. Generally, doctors in western medicine hospitals recommend that you do this test, because only after doing this test can doctors know which kind of kidney disease you are. Renal biopsy usually takes about 9 days in hospital. During this period, doctors should observe the condition after operation. Generally, renal biopsy will lead to renal bleeding, that is, there is a lot of blood in urine, There may also be long-term low back pain.

Third: renal biopsy is usually called renal biopsy. Due to the variety of kidney diseases, complex etiology and pathogenesis, the clinical manifestations of many kidney diseases are not completely consistent with the histological changes of the kidney. In order to clarify the etiology and pathology of the disease, and further diagnose the specific diseases of patients, renal biopsy is needed at this time.

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Generally speaking, some routine renal examination can only detect some common kidney disease. For some patients with complex and difficult to diagnose kidney disease, we need to do renal puncture at this time to identify the specific diseases. This is to penetrate into the kidney.