Under what conditions do you perform a post-procedural kidney ultrasound in patients who recently underwent a kidney biopsy?  

The most important complication of renal biopsy is bleeding. Ultrasound helps in the detection and monitoring of an enlarging hematoma. In some practices, the patient is discharged after 6-8 hours after a biopsy. Ultrasound is done at 1 hour (which detects only 20% of bleeding) and then at the time ...