Kidney Biopsy: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Having an untreated bleeding or blood clotting disorder.
- Not being able to lie still.
- Having advanced kidney disease, uncontrolled high blood pressure, or only one kidney.
- Being obese.
- Having a severely deformed spine.
- Having a urinary tract infection.
There is a small chance that a cancer may be missed because the needle biopsy takes tissue from such a small area.
| Last updated: | September 29, 2008 |
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| Author: | Monica Rhodes |
| Reviewed By: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine, Tushar J. Vachharajani, MD, FASN, FACP - Nephrology |
| Editors: | Maria Essig, Tracy Landauer |
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