Laparoscopic
living donor nephrectomy is the standard of care at high volume transplant
centers.
Despite this
there is still reticence to harvest the right kidney laparoscopically because
of concerns regarding the shorter renal vein, higher complexity of
dissection and potentially higher complication rates and worse
renal allograft outcomes.
The aim of this
single-center study of 72 consecutive laparoscopic donor nephrectomies was to
compare left versus right-sided laparoscopic donors in terms of surgical
difficulty, complication rates and outcomes.There were 56 left-sided and 16
right-sided donors.
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