On occasion, renal biopsy is necessary to establish the diagnosis, determine the prognosis or guide therapy. Only a small subset of patients have indications for biopsy.6 Most often, biopsy is performed when a patient has intrinsic acute renal failure that is not acute tubular necrosis.
Fiery is a huge, sturdy, stocky, sleek, burly, brown and black male with long ears, glossy, shaggy fur, rippling muscles, massive paws, a blunt, dark face and eyes. Fiery is originally described as black in A Hidden Enemy. This, however, was changed to his current description.
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