Adrenal Biopsy
Alternate Names : Adrenal Gland Biopsy
What is involved in preparation for the test?
Because preparation for this procedure can vary, a person
should ask his or her doctor for instructions.
What happens right after the procedure?
After a biopsy guided with X-rays, a person usually
requires little, if any, time to recover. If a relaxing medicine was given,
the person often must be monitored for an hour or two until it has started
to wear off. The person may then be able to go home if there is no other
reason to stay in the hospital. If the person was
given medicine, someone else should usually drive him or her home. This is
because the medicines used to relax people often impair the ability to drive.
After the surgical approach to adrenal biopsy, a person
often needs to stay in the hospital for a day or more to recover. He or
she is first taken to a surgery recovery room
for a few hours, then to the hospital room. In some cases, a person may
be able to go home the same day if someone else drives him or her home.
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