A kidney biopsy is a fairly complicated diagnostic test. The goal is to gather as much information as possible about the state of your kidney’s health by looking at actual tissue samples.

The present recommendation is that the patient be observed for 12–24 h after a native kidney biopsy. 1 This recommendation was made on the basis of a case series reported by Whittier and Korbet ...

The median follow-up after kidney-allograft biopsy was 5.0 years (interquartile range, 2.6 to 8.6). Graft loss occurred in 490 patients (11.2%). Figure 2.

A biopsy sample obtained 8 days after transplantation shows a ... Kumar V, Porrett PM, et al. Physiologic homeostasis after pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation. Kidney Int 2024;105:971-979 ...