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 |