Are there any relations among transplant centre volume, surgical technique and anatomy for donor graft selection? Ten-year multicentric Italian experience on mini-invasive living donor nephrectomy
Author(s) -
Matteo Ravaioli,
E. Capocasale,
Lucrezia Furian,
Vanessa De Pace,
Maurizio Iaria,
Gionata Spagnoletti,
Maria Paola Salerno,
Alessandro Giacomoni,
Luciano De Carlis,
Caterina Di Bella,
Rostand Emmanuel Nguefouet Momo,
Luigino Boschiero,
Giovanni Di Pasquale,
Andrea Bosio,
Andrea Collini,
Mario Carmellini,
Andrea Airoldi,
G. Bondonno,
Pasquale Ditonno,
S. Impedovo,
Claudio Beretta,
Antenore Giussani,
Carlo Socci,
D. Parolini,
Massimo Abelli,
Elena Ticozzelli,
Umberto Baccarani,
Gian Luigi Adani,
Flavia Caputo,
Barbara Buscemi,
Mauro Frongia,
Andrea Solinas,
Salvatore Gruttadauria,
Marco Spada,
Antonio Daniele Pinna,
Jacopo Romagnoli
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nephrology dialysis transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.654
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1460-2385
pISSN - 0931-0509
DOI - 10.1093/ndt/gfx285
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , surgery , perioperative , kidney transplantation , live donor , kidney , urology , transplantation , renal function
Selection of the right or left living donor kidney for transplantation is influenced by many variables. In the present multi centric study including 21 Italian transplant centres, we evaluated whether centre volume or surgical technique may influence the selection process.
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