Outpatient percutaneous native renal biopsy: safety profile in a large monocentric cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aim to evaluate the safety of performing percutaneous native kidney biopsy (PKB) as an outpatient procedure (implying an observation period of 6 hours) compared with the traditional inpatient policy.

Design, setting, participants and measurements

Group I, in whom PKB was performed in the outpatient department (2012-2016) and followed by 6 hours' observation period and then by regular outpatient visits and group II, in whom PKB was performed and followed by at least 1 day hospital admission. Group II included retrospectively retrieved patients who underwent PKB in our Institution between January 2000 and November 2012 as an inpatient procedure. All biopsies were performed by a single nephrologist following a structured protocol.

Results

462 biopsies were

SUBMITTER: Roccatello D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734246 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature