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. 2020 Oct 15;15(11):1595–1602. doi: 10.2215/CJN.04710420

Table 1.

Summary of kidney biopsy complications

Complication Domain All Studies Influential Studies Excluded
Proportion 95% Confidence Interval I2, % Proportion 95% Confidence Interval I2, %
Pain 0.043 0.02 to 0.07 94
Hematoma 0.11 0.07 to 0.15 99 0.088 0.06 to 0.12 98
Hematuria 0.035 0.03 to 0.04 99
Transfusion 0.016 0.01 to 0.02 99 0.014 0.01 to 0.02 88
Intervention 0.003 0.00 to 0.01 73
Death 0.0006 0.00 to 0.00 0.0003 0.00 to 0.00