Nephrology guidance, of a core biopsy needle into the kidney to obtain a small sample of kidney tissue. The kidney tissue is then examined under a microscope, allowing direct visualization of the changes occurring within the kidney. Additionally, the pathology may also stage a problem affecting the kidney, allowing some degree of prognostication. In some circumstances, kidney biopsy will also be used to monitor response to treatment and identify early relapse. Treatments in nephrology can include medications, blood products, surgical interventions (urology, vascular or surgical procedures), renal replacement therapy (dialysis or kidney transplantation) and plasma exchange. Kidney problems can have significant
Body without organs gestation of a formation yet to come, and the potential formation of many actualities from a single origin. In "Anti-Oedipus" Deleuze and Guattari expand the Body without Organs image by comparing its real potentials to the egg's : The body without organs is an egg: it is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes and geodesic lines, traversed by gradients marking the transitions and the becomings, the destinations of the subject developing along these particular vectors ("Capitalism and Schizophrenia", p. 19). For Deleuze and Guattari, every actual body has a limited set of traits, habits, movements, affects, etc.