The native kidney biopsy: Update and evidence for best practice

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 354-356

  Hogan, Jonathan J ^a   Mocanu, Michaela ^a   Berns, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Disease management; Glomerular disease; Humans; Kidney; Kidney biopsy; Kidney disease; Nephrectomy; Nephrology

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CREATININE; DESMOPRESSIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATOMA; HEMATURIA; HORSESHOE KIDNEY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROLOGIST; PERCUTANEOUS RENAL BIOPSY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SOLITARY KIDNEY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSJUGULAR KIDNEY BIOPSY; ULTRASOUND; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BENCHMARKING; BIOPSY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS;

BENCHMARKING; BIOPSY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84957054622     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.05750515     Document Type: Review

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