ArticleThe International journal of angiology : official publication of the International College of Angiology, Inc2013
Removal of foley catheters in live donor kidney transplant recipients on postoperative day 1 does not increase the incidence of urine leaks.
Article in The International journal of angiology : official publication of the International College of Angiology, Inc, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04815954 (Early vs Late Urinary Catheter Removal After Renal Transplantation Randomised Clinical Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Early vs Late Urinary Catheter Removal After Renal Transplantation Randomised Clinical Trial
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Early versus late removal of urinary catheter after kidney transplantation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- A review of enhanced recovery after surgery in kidney and liver transplantation and outline of the Newcastle ERAS protocols.Frontiers in transplantation · 2026Review
- Current clinical standards for renal transplantation: a survey among urological and surgical transplantation centers in Germany.World journal of urology · 2025Article
- Investigating the timing of catheter removal after traumatic bladder injury: a single-institution 12-year experience.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Article
- A national survey on enhanced recovery for renal transplant recipients: current practices and trends in the UK.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2023Article
- Timing of Urinary Catheter Removal Following Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Study.Kidney medicine · 2022Article
- A Current Review of the Etiology, Clinical Features, and Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection in Renal Transplant Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Working towards an ERAS Protocol for Pancreatic Transplantation: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- UTI in kidney transplant.World journal of urology · 2020Review
- Old habits die hard; does early urinary catheter removal affect kidney size, bacteriuria and UTI after renal transplantation?Journal of renal injury prevention · 2017Article
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Abstract
Catheterization of the urinary bladder during kidney transplantation is essential. The optimal time to remove the Foley catheter postoperatively is not universally defined. It is our practice to remove the Foley catheter on postoperative day 1 in live donor kidney transplant recipients who meet our standardized protocol criteria. We believe that early removal of Foley catheters increases patient comfort and mobility, decreases the risk of catheter associated urinary tract infections, and allows for decreased hospital length of stay. The hypothetical risk of early removal of Foley catheters would be the increased risk of urine leak. We reviewed 120 consecutive live donor kidney transplant recipients and found that there was not an increased incidence of urine leaks in patients whose Foley catheters were removed on postoperative day 1.
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