Liver Biopsy

It is a procedure performed to determine the severity of damages and/or the causes of liver diseases and a small sample is collected with a special needle. Significant information on disease can be obtained by examining the sample through a microscope.

Firstly, blood tests are performed on the patient who is decided to have biopsy, to determine whether the patient has tendency to bleeding and if biopsy is found to be inconvenient, it is performed after such defects are recovered. Patient is hospitalized on the day of biopsy and monitored for a night following the biopsy. There are no particular procedures to be performed by the patient before biopsy. It is not necessary to fast, unless otherwise stated by your physician. Before biopsy, a medication to calm the patient is given and the site where sample to be collected is numbed by subcutaneous injection. The pain caused by biopsy is not more than the hip muscle injection. In order to minimize the possibility of bleeding, the patient is laid down on a firm ground, in a position that the biopsy site will be on top, until the following morning. The examination results of the samples collected with biopsy are issued within 7 days, depending on the characteristics of procedures.