Articles tagged "Nephrectomy"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Relationship between Living Kidney Donor Follow-Up GFR and Recipient Graft Loss
C. Holscher,¹ T. Ishaque,¹ C. Haugen,¹ S. DiBrito,¹ K. Jackson,¹ A. Muzaale,¹ A. Massie,^1,2 M. Henderson,¹ J. Garonzik Wang,¹ D. Segev.^1,2,3
¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; ²Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore; ³Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis.
In living kidney transplantation, it is reasonable to believe a donated kidney's function would be associated with the function of the donor's remaining kidney. Indeed,…
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Donor Safety in Obese Patients: 1038 Consecutive Robotic Living Donor Nephrectomies
C. Di Bella,¹ M. Spaggiari,¹ K. Tulla,¹ P. Di Cocco,¹ J. Oberholzer,² I. Tzvetanov,¹ E. Benedetti.¹
¹Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; ²Surgery, University of Virginia, Virginia, VA.
Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy has been a widely accepted technical improvement in kidney transplantation. Since 2000, we have introduced robotic living donor nephrectomy (RLDN) in our…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Few Gender Differences in Attitudes and Experiences after Live Kidney Donation, with Minor Changes over Time
J. Wadström,^1,2 B. von Zur-Mühlen,³ S. Yamamoto.³
¹Department of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden; ²Department of Surgery/Transplantation, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar; ³Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Background: We sought to study gender differences and differences over time with respect to demographics, relation to recipient, donor motives, and experiences of live kidney…
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Opioid Use Following Ultrasound-Guided Transverse Abdominis Plane Blocks in Living Donor Nephrectomy Patients
E. Henricksen,¹ D. Quan,¹ C. Freise.²
¹Department of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; ²Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Purpose: Post-operative pain management is of major concern in living donor nephrectomy patients. Opioids are often used for post-surgical pain, however they are associated with…
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Outcomes of Retroperitoneoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy (RPLDN): Experience of 1100 Cases at a Single Center
K. Omoto,^1,2 M. Okumi,¹ Y. Kakuta,¹ H. Noguchi,¹ K. Unagami,¹ M. Inui,¹ H. Ishida,¹ K. Tanabe.¹
¹Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan; ²Department of Transplant Surgery, Toda Chuo General Hospital, Toda, Japan.
INTRODUCTION: Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy is a standard method of donor nephrectomy. We have tried to establish the technique of pure retroperitoneoscopic live donor nephrectomy (RPLDN)…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Liposomal Bupivacaine: Friend or Foe in Kidney Donation?
Y. Yang, A. Jantz, B. Summers, A. Patel, L. Malinzak, N. Sulejmani.
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
Background: Pain following nephrectomy and concerns for opioid dependence are disincentives to living kidney donors (LKD). Efficacy of liposomal bupivacaine (LB) in post-operative care of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Spigelius' Line Incision as a Successful Route to Extract the Kidney during Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic Live-Donor Nephrectomy
J. Qiu, G. Chen, Z. Wu, C. Wang, L. Chen.
Organ Transplantation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
To introduce the advantages, incision designing methods and surgical procedures of spigelius' line incision in retroperitoneal laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy.Methods: The clinical data of 114…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The New Crescentic Incision: A Good Option for Donor Nephrectomy
M. Haberal,¹ M. Kirnap,¹ A. Akdur,¹ E. Ayvazoglu Soy,¹ S. Yildirim,¹ G. Moray,¹ Z. Kayhan,² A. Torgay.²
¹Transplantation, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey; ²Anesthesiology, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Introduction: Living kidney donation helps to avoid or reduce the time period of dialysis and time spent on waiting lists for patients requiring a new…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Native Kidney Volume Decreases after Kidney Transplantation in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: Less Patients Need Nephrectomy?
R. Murakami,¹ D. Nagawa,¹ M. Nakata,¹ I. Narita,¹ T. Fujita,¹ M. Shimada,¹ N. Nakamura,¹ H. Tomita,¹ S. Hatakeyama,² T. Yoneyama,² Y. Hashimoto,² T. Koie,² C. Ohyama.²
¹Nephrology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan; ²Urology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan.
Background.The clinical implication of kidney volume decline on abdominal symptom improvement after kidney transplantation in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). We investigated…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Single versus Bilateral Simultaneous Nephrectomy during Kidney Transplantation in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
C. Choi,¹ S. Cho,¹ M-.J. Cho,¹ W. Cho,¹ S. Ahn,¹ S-.I. Min,¹ S-.K. Min,¹ S. Kim,² J. Ha.¹
¹Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; ²Department of Surgery, Myongji Hospital, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea.
PurposeAlthough there are some controversies about nephrectomy in patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), simultaneous nephrectomy has done selectively. There are few report…