Biopsias renales: experiencia de 9 años en el Hospital Fernández / Kidney autopsies: A 9 years experience in the "Fernandez Hospital"

ABSTRACT

Renal biopsy is a key procedure for the evaluation and management of the renal diseases, in order to establish a certainty diagnosis, to perform an adequate treatment and to determine the prognosis, while it results in a fundamental tool, but not all the medical centers have the necessary requeriments to carry them succesfully so that it can achieve the maximum benefit, lessen the posible complications, since as it is an invasive technique, always exists a certain risk inherent to the procedure, being the technique of choice the percutaneous renal biopsy guided by ultrasound. The aim of this report, is to know the incidence of the reanl pathology, in kidney biopsies in our Hospita, between July 2008 through July 2017, by mean of a descriptive and retrospective study. Two-thousands and eightsi-six reanl biopsies were analyzed in that period, and we analyzed the frequency of the disease diagnosed, the origin of the samples and thir quality, the age range of the population studied, as well as the complications of the method employed