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. 2021 Jul 17;6(10):2594–2603. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2021.07.011

Table 3.

Proportion of bleeding in transjugular versus percutaneous kidney biopsy

Tranjugular kidney biopsy
Percutaneous kidney biopsy
P value
n = 5305 n = 55,026
Bleeding events day 0–8
 Any major event 354 (7) 2991 (5) 0.0002
 Blood transfusion 301 (6) 2614 (5) 0.003
Angiographic intervention 43 (0.8) 216 (0.4) <0.0001
Hemorrhage/hematoma 29 (0.5) 273 (0.5) 0.62
Nephrectomy 0 (0.0) 33 (0.1) 0.07