Safety of omitting routine bleeding tests prior to image-guided musculoskeletal core needle biopsy

Autor: Yuri Shif, Colm J. McMahon, Megan E. Anderson, Jim S. Wu, Jennifer Ni Mhuircheartaigh, Yu-Ching Lin, Justin W. Kung
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Skeletal Radiology. 47:215-221
ISSN: 1432-2161
0364-2348
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-017-2784-5
Popis: To evaluate the safety of withholding preprocedure international normalized ratio (INR) and platelet testing in patients undergoing musculoskeletal (MSK) core needle biopsy (CNB).Initially, a retrospective review of 1,162 consecutive patients undergoing MSK CNB with preprocedural INR and platelet testing was performed. Clinical (age, gender, bleeding disorder, liver disease, anticoagulation use, INR 2, platelet count50,000/ul) and biopsy factors (imaging modality, lesion type, biopsy needle gauge, number biopsy samples) were tested for association with bleeding complications. During the second phase, an additional 188 biopsies performed without preprocedural coagulation testing were studied. Categorical variables were compared using Chi-squared or Fisher's exact tests, continuous variables with a student t-test. Multivariate analysis was performed using logistic regression.In the first phase, there was a complication rate of 2.6%, 30/1162. Of the 11 clinical and biopsy factors, soft tissue lesions (p = 0.029) and lesions biopsied under ultrasound (p = 0.048) had a higher rate of bleeding than bone lesions or lesions biopsied under CT, respectively. Only three patients had an INR2, 0.3% (3/1162) and only four patients had platelet count50,000/ul, 0.3% (4/1162). No patient with a bleeding complication had an abnormal preprocedure bleeding test. In the second phase, there was a bleeding complication rate of 1.1% (2/188).Bleeding complications from MSK biopsy are low, even when preprocedure coagulation testing is omitted.
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