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Renal biopsy - Results
Alternative Names
Kidney biopsy; Biopsy - kidney
Normal Values:
A normal value is when the kidney tissue shows normal structure.
What abnormal results mean:
An abnormal result means there are changes in the kidney tissue. This may be due to infection, poor blood flow through the kidney, connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, or other diseases that may be affecting the kidney.
For transplant patients, an abnormal kidney biopsy may be a sign of transplant rejection.
Additional conditions under which the test may be performed:
- Acute nephritic syndrome
- Acute tubular necrosis
- Alport syndrome
- Atheroembolic renal disease
- Chronic glomerulonephritis
- Complicated urinary tract infection
- Diabetic nephropathy
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Goodpasture syndrome
- IgA nephropathy (Berger's disease)
- Interstitial nephritis
- Lupus nephritis
- Medullary cystic kidney disease
- Membranoproliferative GN I
- Membranoproliferative GN II
- Membranous nephropathy
- Minimal change disease
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Post-streptococcal GN
- Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
- Reviewed last on: 10/22/2007
- Robert Mushnick, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Nephrology, SUNY Downstate Health Center, Brooklyn, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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