Is day case liver biopsy underutilised?

Is day case liver biopsy underutilised?

Day case liver biopsies are rarely performed nationally but have been routine practice in selected patients in our hospital since 1989. We have audited our experience of this procedure to compare its safety, and efficacy with inpatient biopsy and assess patient acceptability. Audit data were collected retrospectively on liver biopsies performed at a teaching hospital over 42 months. Acceptabili...

Liver Biopsy by Needle

  در نمونه برداری سوزنی کبد یا آسپیراسیون کبد، توسط سوزن نمونه برداری می توان نمونه ای از بافت کبدی را جهت تشخیص اکثر اختلالات کبدی، اثبات وجود سرطان کبد، یا ارزیابی اثرات داروهای آسیب رساننده به کبد تهیه کرد. همچنین با انجام نمونه برداری های مکرر روند پیشرفت و پاسخ بیماران به درمان بیماری های کبدی مزمنی چون هپاتیت فعال را می توان مشخص نمود.

Liver biopsy as a day-case procedure: selection and complications in 200 consecutive patients.

The selection of 200 consecutive patients who underwent liver biopsy as a day-case procedure and subsequent complications were reviewed, In 59 patients a diagnosis of cirrhosis was confirmed by histological examination. Six patients developed minor complications attributable to the procedure and had to stay longer in hospital, and another returned with abdominal pain the evening after the biops...

[Liver biopsy].

Nonfocal liver biopsy may be required to diagnose or stage diffuse parenchymal dis• ease such as cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, hemachromatosis, and Wilson’s disease. Focal liver biopsy may be necessary to diagnose or stage primary or secondary hepatic • malignancy and to differentiate malignancy from benign hepatic m...

Liver Biopsy After Liver Transplantation