Future of the Renal Biopsy: Time to Change the Conventional Modality Using Nanotechnology

At the present time, imaging guided renal biopsy is used to provide diagnoses in most types of primary and secondary renal diseases. It has been claimed that renal biopsy can provide a link between diagnosis of renal disease and its pathological conditions. However, sometimes there is a considerable...

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Main Authors: Hamid Tayebi Khosroshahi, Behzad Abedi, Sabalan Daneshvar, Yashar Sarbaz, Abolhassan Shakeri Bavil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6141734
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Summary:At the present time, imaging guided renal biopsy is used to provide diagnoses in most types of primary and secondary renal diseases. It has been claimed that renal biopsy can provide a link between diagnosis of renal disease and its pathological conditions. However, sometimes there is a considerable mismatch between patient renal outcome and pathological findings in renal biopsy. This is the time to address some new diagnostic methods to resolve the insufficiency of conventional percutaneous guided renal biopsy. Nanotechnology is still in its infancy in renal imaging; however, it seems that it is the next step in renal biopsy, providing solutions to the limitations of conventional modalities.
ISSN:1687-4188
1687-4196