The Harm Of Kidney Needle Puncture

As a means of examination, kidney puncture needle can clarify the type and degree of renal lesions to guide the treatment plan and judge the prognosis. For patients with unexplained urinary protein, urinary occult blood or acute renal failure, kidney puncture is of great significance. Of course, kidney puncture also has certain harm or certain side effects.

First, the case of renal perforation may cause massive bleeding of the urinary system of the patient, because after all, this is a traumatic operation resulting in bleeding outside the kidney capsule hematoma, which is possible to occur, and even need to perform renal artery embolization to save life.

Second, other organs may be accidentally injured in the process of puncture, such as intestinal perforation. Renal puncture can also cause arteriovenous fistula in the kidney of patients, and renal puncture may also cause local infection of the puncture site.