Clinical factors influencing the decision to transfuse after percutaneous native kidney biopsy

Conclusions While patients with lower pre-PRB Hgb have more of the traditional risk factors for a complication after PRB, there was actually less clinically evident bleeding in these patients who were transfused. Although anemia itself has been considered to be a risk factor for a complication in the past, it more accurately represents only a predictor of receiving an erythrocyte transfusion. In the setting of the PRB, the decision for transfusion is influenced more by the severity of anemia at baseline as opposed to clinically evident bleeding.
Source: CKJ: Clinical Kidney Journal - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: GLOMERULONEPHRITIS Source Type: research