ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
The Evolution of Living Donor Nephrectomy Program at A Hellenic Transplant Center. Laparoscopic vs. Open Donor Nephrectomy: Single-Center Experience.
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- Enhancing donor outcomes: simultaneous laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy and concomitant surgical procedures.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- Quality of Life of Donors After Living Kidney Transplantation: A Cross-Sectional Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The New Era of Organ Transplantation in Greece: Time to Converge With the Western World.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Article
- Robotic assisted living donor nephrectomy - the first in the Czech Republic.Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia · 2024Article
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- Retroperitoneal robot-assisted live-donor nephrectomy: A single-center study.Frontiers in transplantation · 2023Article
- Two- and three-dimensional laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: a comparative study of a single-center experience.Korean journal of transplantation · 2022Article
- Donor Nephrectomy Through Mini-Flank Incision: A Single-Centre Experience Among Nigerian Patients.Cureus · 2022Article
- Operational challenges in the COVID-19 era: Asymptomatic infections and vaccination timing.Clinical transplantation · 2021Article
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Abstract
Since its introduction in 1995, laparoscopic nephrectomy has emerged as the preferred surgical approach for living donor nephrectomy. Given the ubiquity of the surgical procedure and the need for favorable outcomes, as it is an elective operation on otherwise healthy individuals, it is imperative to ensure appropriate preoperative risk stratification and anticipate intraoperative challenges. The aim of the present study was to compare peri-and postoperative outcomes of living kidney donors (LD), who had undergone laparoscopic nephrectomy (LDN), with a control group of those who had undergone open nephrectomy (ODN). Health-related quality of life (QoL) was also assessed using the validated SF-36 questionnaire. Data from 252 LD from a single transplant center from March 2015 to December 2020 were analyzed retrospectively. In total, 117 donors in the LDN and 135 in the ODN groups were assessed. Demographics, type of transplantation, BMI, duration of surgery, length of hospital stay, peri- and postoperative complications, renal function at discharge and QoL were recorded and compared between the two groups using Stata 13.0 software. There was no difference in baseline characteristics, nor in the prevalence of peri-and postoperative complications, with a total complication rate of 16% (mostly minor, Clavien-Dindo grade II) in both groups, while a different pattern of surgical complications was noticed between them. Duration of surgery was significantly longer in the ODN group (median 240 min vs. 160 min in LDN,
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