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Using the French national registry, Kaczmarek et al. developed a simplified bleeding risk score (anaemia, female sex, heart failure, acute kidney injury; range: 0\u20135), achieving an AUC of 0.755 in native biopsies. We aimed to externally validate this score in a Romanian cohort and to assess whether additional clinically relevant predictors could improve discrimination for major bleeding. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all consecutive adults undergoing an ultrasound-guided percutaneous native kidney biopsy at a tertiary nephrology centre in Romania between January 2008 and December 2024. The primary outcome was a composite major bleeding event: clinically significant haematoma or haemorrhage, blood transfusion, angiographic intervention or nephrectomy. The Kaczmarek score was validated using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. Candidate predictors were assessed by multivariable logistic regression, and a simplified score was derived from the regression coefficients. Results: Among 3081 patients, 162 (5.3%) experienced major bleeding. The Kaczmarek score showed modest discrimination (AUC: 0.624, 95% CI: 0.585\u20130.663). In the multivariable analysis (n = 2506 complete cases), anaemia, heart failure, solid neoplasm and fibrinogen were independently associated with major bleeding. An eight-component score (anaemia, heart failure, solid neoplasm, and fibrinogen &lt; 511 mg\/dL; female sex, hypertension, liver disease, and eGFR &lt; 30 mL\/min\/1.73 m2) achieved an AUC of 0.676 (95% CI: 0.631\u20130.717), outperforming the Kaczmarek score. Conclusions: The French score performed only modestly in our cohort. 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