Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy: Initial Experience

[en] Transplanting a kidney graft harvested from a live donor has been proposed and used to shorten the waiting time of kidney transplant candidates and to increase the graft pool. Live donor renal transplants have demonstrated better results in term of graft survival rates, compared to renal transplants harvested from brain dead donor. Recently, laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy has been introduced to reduce the live procurement morbidity. This lower morbidity may result in increased acceptance of the donor operation. We initiated a program of laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy in January 1997 and up until June 1998, three cases were successfully performed in our department. The purpose of this paper was to report the first case of this program and its first year of follow-up.

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Surgery

Author, co-author :

Defechereux, Thierry ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation

Hamoir, Etienne ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation

Detry, Olivier ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation

De Roover, Arnaud ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation

Bonnet, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Anatomie humaine systématique

Honore, Pierre ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation

Meurisse, Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Chirurgicale abdominale

Language :

English

Title :

Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy: Initial Experience

Publication date :

August 1999

Journal title :

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

ISSN :

0001-5458

Publisher :

Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

179-81

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