What circumstances renal biopsy should be done?

Generally after got the kidney disease, in addition to routine urine test, the doctor will often refer to a noun, it is a renal biopsy, the renal biopsy to check what circumstances need to do? Do renal biopsy and have what use?
Renal biopsy is usually called renal biopsy. Because there are so many types of kidney disease, etiology and pathogenesis is complex, many kidney disease clinical manifestations and renal histological change is not consistent. In order to specify the cause of disease pathology, further confirmed patients with specific diseases, then you need to do a renal biopsy. Clinical commonly used method is currently under ultrasound guidance, using trace after kidney specimens was obtained from the kidney biopsy gun, under a microscope renal histological changes.
Xi 'an tongji hospital experts are summarized in the following cases, the need to do a renal biopsy:
1. Nephrotic syndrome: when nephrotic syndrome of unknown etiology, consider secondary to systemic disease;
2. Glomerulonephritis KuaiZhe kidney function decline, renal biopsy are needed to determine the pathological type of renal damage.
3. The accelerated nephritis syndrome, renal biopsy can be indicates that the form and degree of inflammation and the immune deposits, the radical nephritis of early diagnosis and treatment are very important. Atypical clinical manifestation of primary acute nephritis or months after acute nephritis or decline in renal function.
4. The primary nephrotic syndrome in warning before it is best to use hormone do renal biopsy to determine its tissue types, in order to avoid blindly using hormones cause side effects, especially effective to renal biopsy was carried out.
5. Patients with hematuria after various checks out the non glomerular hematuria, failed to establish the diagnosis of renal biopsy can consider to do, for persistent hematuria without clinical symptoms and blood in the urine protein, 24 hours urinary protein quantitative is greater than 1 gram of renal biopsy should be done.
6. Simple proteinuria duration longer without any symptoms, the renal biopsy can clear its pathological types, facilitate drug and judging prognosis.
7. With lupus nephritis, renal hypertension, acute renal failure, chronic renal failure unexplained renal biopsy can be performed in order to help diagnosis.
What good is a renal biopsy? Different pathological changes its treatment is different also, if only according to the clinical treatment, some patients may treatment is invalid, or delay treatment opportunity, or excessive treatment of adverse consequences. Renal biopsy for pathological results can guide the therapy.
By renal biopsy can clear the possible pathogenic causes (immune-mediated inflammatory related to metabolism), etc.; Renal biopsy can also clear disease pathological type (small lesions, membranous nephropathy and focal segmental glomerular sclerosis, etc.), and the pathological changes (glomerular, renal tubules, renal blood vessels) to make a correct judgment.
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