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Trial reportAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2021

Simultaneous robotic kidney transplantation and bariatric surgery for morbidly obese patients with end-stage renal failure.

Mario Spaggiari, Pierpaolo Di Cocco, Kiara Tulla, Kerim B Kaylan, Mario A Masrur, Chandra Hassan, Jorge A Alvarez, Enrico Benedetti, Ivo Tzvetanov

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Trial report in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Association between bariatric surgery after kidney transplantation and graft and survival outcomes.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2025
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  12. Timing Considerations for Sleeve Gastrectomy in Kidney Transplant Patients: A Single Center Evaluation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mario SpaggiariDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.ORCID 0000-0003-3000-6094
Pierpaolo Di CoccoDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.ORCID 0000-0002-7152-8262
Kiara TullaDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Kerim B KaylanCollege of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Mario A MasrurDivision of General, Minimally Invasive, & Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Chandra HassanDivision of General, Minimally Invasive, & Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Jorge A AlvarezDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Enrico BenedettiDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Ivo TzvetanovDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
University of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with obesity have limited access to kidney transplantation, mainly due to an increased incidence of surgical complications, which could be reduced with selective use of robotic-assisted surgery. This prospective randomized controlled trial compares the safety and efficacy of combining robotic sleeve gastrectomy and robotic-assisted kidney transplant to robotic kidney transplant alone in candidates with class II or III obesity. Twenty candidates were recruited, 11 were randomized to the robotic sleeve gastrectomy and robotic-assisted kidney transplant group and 9 to the robotic kidney transplant group. At 12-month follow-up, change in body mass index was -8.76 ± 1.82 in the robotic sleeve gastrectomy and robotic-assisted kidney transplant group compared to 1.70 ± 2.30 in the robotic kidney transplant group (P = .0041). Estimated glomerular filtration rate, serum creatinine, readmission rates, and graft failure rates up to 12 months were not different between the two groups. Length of surgery was longer in the robotic sleeve gastrectomy and robotic-assisted kidney transplant group (405 minutes vs. 269 minutes, p = .00304) without increase in estimated blood loss (120 ml vs. 117 ml, p = .908) or incidence of surgical complications. Combined robotic-assisted kidney transplant and sleeve gastrectomy is safe and effective compared to robotic-assisted kidney transplant alone.

Indexed as

Bariatric SurgeryKidney Failure, ChronicKidney TransplantationLaparoscopyObesity, MorbidRobotic Surgical ProceduresGastrectomyHumansProspective StudiesRetrospective StudiesWeight Lossclinical research / practiceclinical trialcomorbiditieskidney transplantation / nephrologyobesity

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PMID32976702
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