Open and laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy in Switzerland: A retrospective assessment of clinical outcomes and the motivation to donate

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2563-2568

  Dahm, Felix ^a   Weber, Markus ^a   Müller, Benjamin ^a   Pradel, Françoise G ^b   Laube, Guido F ^c   Neuhaus, Thomas J ^c   Cao, Claude ^a   Wüthrich, Rudolf P ^a   Thiel, Gilbert T ^d   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Laparoscopy; Living donors; Motivation; Personal satisfaction; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; BALANITIS; COLON INJURY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NAUSEA; NEPHRECTOMY; NEURALGIA; ORGAN DONOR; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SATISFACTION; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750111411     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl207     Document Type: Article

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