
Ep. 39 Better Biopsies With Dr. Thor Johnson
BackTable Vascular & Interventional
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The Role of Biopins in Liver Biopsies
The guide is like the 17 gauge. You want to go away from the portal vein too, if you're going to do adequate biopsies for liver because there tends to be a lack of complete portal triads surrounding the portal vein. And so adjustable links on the biopins I think are one, two and three centimeters. So we've done probably 150 or so and we haven't had any bleeding to this point. Any with the kidneys? Not with the kidney either. We're pretty wimpy about kidneys though. Like we are very particular. Kidney has to be more than nine centimeters or we won't biopsy. They have to have completely normal blood pressure or we
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