Is Liver Puncture Dangerous

Many hepatitis B patients are afraid of liver puncture examination, worried that it will hurt the body, liver puncture is dangerous. In fact, it is unnecessary to worry about the danger of liver puncture. Liver puncture is not terrible. Many other cooperative examinations should be performed before liver puncture examination, such as platelet count, prothrombin time, bleeding time, coagulation time, etc. As long as these tests are performed correctly, a liver biopsy is safe. A liver biopsy is a biopsy of liver tissue. It is very traumatic, many patients do not accept it, and liver biopsy is not routine in the clinic. Generally speaking, the patients who have to do liver puncture have developed liver disease to a certain stage, the liver is seriously damaged, a large number of liver cells have been denaturated and necrotic, and the fibrous tissue is hyperplasia. The normal lobular structure and blood vessels of the liver are also damaged, and there are false lobules formed. Generally speaking, they have reached the stage of cirrhosis.