You may feel sore at the area of the biopsy for a few days. Your doctor can prescribe appropriate pain relief medicines if you have significant pain from the biopsy. What Happens After the Biopsy? After the tissue is collected and preserved, it's delivered to a pathologist. Pathologists are...
Glyca-binding proteins (GBPs)are a category of proteins that bind specifically to certain sugar molecules. The “glyca” is the same prefix you see in the wordglycation. That describes what happens after a protein or fat binds with a sugar molecule (3). This binding process can cause inflamm...
What Happens After a Prostate Exam? You should get your DRE results right away and PSA test results in a day or so. You can return to your normal activities right away. It's possible that you'll have light bleeding from your rectum, but this is rare. It happens more often if you ha...
Here, we present a quality improvement analysis that reviews the complication rate of percutaneous kidney biopsies performed over a 2-year period by nephrologists at a single center, and that tabulates the nature and timing of these events.From a single center cohort, pre- and post-biopsy ...
Undergoing a biopsy procedure can be a traumatic experience, and waiting for results adds to the stress. Here is the step-by-step process all biopsies go through in the lab.
Male physicals include an examination of the penis and testicles1. The physician looks for structural abnormalities, such as testicular tumors. He may also examine for a hernia, which may occur when part of the bowel pushes into the scrotum from the abdomen. To check for a hernia, the physic...
Explore what happens to the body after death. Study the terms pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, and livor mortis, which are post-death...
What happens after an inadequate smear? If the laboratory was able to get a clear reading second time around, then you'll be informed as to whether you have any cell changes or not. If your follow-up smear also comes back inadequate, you might be invited for a colposcopy to get a more...
(See my post Safety Dance for more on this.) One of the main ideas of The Gupta Program is to tell your worried part that you are safe, that “Whatever happens, I will handle it.” You’re not trying to convince yourself that everything will always go well, but that it’s okay ...
Learn about what you can expect from a tongue biopsy, including how it's performed and the after-care.