Introducing hand-assisted retroperitoneoscopic live donor nephrectomy: Learning curves and development based on 413 consecutive cases in four centers

Transplantation

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 462-469

  Wadström, Jonas ^a   Biglarnia, Alireza ^a   Gjertsen, Henrik ^b   Sugitani, Atsushi ^c   Fronek, Jiri ^d,e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Hand assistance; Hand assisted retroperitoneoscopic nephrectomy; Learning curve; Live donor nephrectomy; Living donors; Morbidity; Multicenter; Review; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BODY MASS; CHYLOUS ASCITES; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAND ASSISTED RETROPERITONEOSCOPIC LIVING DONOR NEPHRECTOMY; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY ARTERY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHRECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTAL PAIN; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER INJURY; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HAND-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEARNING CURVE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951682955     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182052baf     Document Type: Article

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