**6. Reducing the risk of complications**

Compliance with absolute and relative contraindications for liver biopsy should lead to a decrease in serious accidents due to LB, the presentation of which is beyond the scope of this paper. Liver biopsy is an invasive procedure with the possible risk of severe complications, approximately 0.5/1,000 [1, 30]. Liver biopsy is a procedure for which there exists residual mortality [32]. Although serious complications have decreased over time, mortality after performing transparietal liver biopsy remains at 0.2% and deaths related to liver biopsy for diffuse parenchymal liver amount to 1 out of 10,000 LB [32].This risk, however, has de‐ creased dramatically over time because of improvement in indications for liver biopsy and compliance with contraindications [32].
