Mel.....how much blood through the nephrostomy tube?
"Percutaneous nephrostomy is a urinary drainage procedure used for supravesical or ureteral obstruction secondary to malignancy, pyonephrosis, genitourinary stones, and ureteral strictures. It is also used as an adjunctive therapy with ESWL and ureteral stents. Nephrostomy tubes are also used for urinary diversion associated with vesical fistula, ureteral transaction, and trauma. Patients may present to the ED from postoperative complications related to the procedure or days and months after the procedure. In general, the risk of complications is low and includes bleeding, infection, mechanical complications related to the catheter (dislodgement or obstruction), and accidental punctures of adjacent organs...."
I do think the placement of the tube needs to be checked.
This is an article which you might already know...but everything i've read so far seems to indicate that bleeding is a sometimes latent complication of a nephrostomy tube.
www.answers.com/topic/nephrostomy-surgical-term
So sorry Mel.......Pat