Articles tagged "Laparoscopy"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Complex Live Donor Anatomy Does Not Preclude Kidney Transplantation
P. Veitch, T. Brown, A. Courtney, J. McDaid
Transplant Department, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom
*Purpose: Living donor (LD) kidney transplantation is the optimum form of renal replacement therapy for suitable patients. Decline of otherwise suitable potential donors on the…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Surgical Outcome and Analysis of Risk of Complications in Kidney Donors Receiving Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy
C. Yang, C. Yeh, C. Lee, C. Chen, I. Lai, P. Lee, M. Tsai
Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
*Purpose: Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy has adopted for more than 20 years. But the operative procedure is still technically demanding, and allows almost no margin…
2019 American Transplant Congress
How Challenging Will Be My Living Donor? CT Scan and Clinical Evaluation Can Predict Technical Difficulty of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
V. Bianchi¹, G. Spagnoletti¹, R. Iezzi², F. E. Rossini¹, A. Posa², A. E. Rossini¹, M. P. Salerno¹, F. Citterio¹, J. Romagnoli¹
¹Renal Transplant Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy, ²Radiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
*Purpose: There are no objective parameters for predicting the difficulty of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN). Our aim was to identify the correlation between demographic and…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Learning Curve for Living Donor Laparoscopic Left Lateral Sectionectomy
R. Hwang¹, D. von Ahrens², A. Griesemer¹, T. Kato¹, J. Emond¹, D. Cherqui³, B. Samstein²
¹Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³Department of Surgery, Paul Brousse Hospital - Université Paris Sud, Villejuif, France
*Purpose: Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an important method in reducing wait list mortality. Laparoscopic hepatectomy has been investigated in order to decrease donor…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Case Series Of Total Laparoscopic-hand Assisted Living Donor Right Hepatectomy: First 19 Cases At A Single Center In Usa
P. N. Martins¹, B. Movahedi², D. Litwin², A. Bozorgzadeh²
¹Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Massachusett, Worcester, MA, ²Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
*Purpose: One of the major limitations of living-donor liver donation is the associated morbidity of the procedure. Although left and left-lateral hepatectomy has been performed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Retroperitoneoscopic Native Nephrectomy in Renal Transplant Recipients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
K. Hotta¹, D. Iwami², J. Furumido², K. Morita³, T. Tanabe⁴, T. Mochizuki⁴, H. Higuchi², N. Iwahara², T. Abe², K. Kanagawa⁴, N. Shinohara²
¹Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, ²Urology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, ³Urology, Kushiro City General Hospital, Kushiro, Japan, ⁴Urology, Asahikawa City General Hospital, Asahikawa, Japan
*Purpose: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) leads to end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and the need for kidney transplantation (KTX). Native nephrectomy is required…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Kidney Transplantation For Obese Patients: First Year Experience In Single Institute
S. Lee¹, L. A. Cantrell², A. Agarwal¹, S. K. Rasmussen¹, S. Pelletier¹, K. Brayman¹, J. Oberholzer¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA, ²Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Obesity with end-stage renal disease significantly impacts intraoperative and postoperative complications in kidney transplantation. Robot-assist procedures have been an attractive modality to overcome barriers…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Robotic Pancreas Kidney Transplantation For Type 1 Diabetic Patient With End stage Renal Disease: First Year Experience In Single Institute
S. Lee¹, L. A. Cantrell², A. Agarwal¹, S. K. Rasmussen¹, S. Pelletier¹, K. Brayman¹, J. Oberholzer¹
¹Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA, ²Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA
*Purpose: Simultaneous pancreas kidney transplantation for type 1 diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease is a highly successful, but also very invasive surgical procedure. Robotic…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy – The BMI Effect
V. Chia,¹ F. Khan,² M. Newell,² L. J. Chen.³
¹Surgery, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, England, United Kingdom; ²Clinical Science Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland; ³Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami, Miami.
Aims: To evaluate the outcomes of Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy (LDN) across 4 BMI groups.Methods : Using the SRTR database, all LDNs performed between 2006-2015 were…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Prospective, Double Blind, Randomized Trial Comparing the Use of Ketorolac and Lyrica versus SOC+placebo during Live Donor Nephrectomy for Transplant
J. Campsen,¹ T. Call,² A. Rosales,¹ C. Allen,³ A. Presson,³ R. Kim.¹
¹Trasplantation and Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ²Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ³Epidemiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Opioid exposure is a concern after live donation (LD) for transplant. We theorized that a protocol using pregablin pre-operation to desensitize nerves followed by ketorolac…