Open AccessLaparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy: Experience of High-Volume Center with 2,477 Cases
Author(s) -
Sefa Alperen Öztürk,
Yücel Yüksel,
Halil Erbiş,
İbrahim Aliosmanoğlu,
Mehmet Sarıer,
Özlem Yayar,
Havva Asuman Yavuz,
A. Demirbaş
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
urologia internationalis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1423-0399
pISSN - 0042-1138
DOI - 10.1159/000511377
Subject(s) - medicine , nephrectomy , urology , live donor , kidney , surgery , kidney transplantation
Donors' health and safety are mandatory in the living-donor kidney transplantation procedure. Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy (LLDN) provides an increase in donor numbers with its benefits and becomes a standard of care. We aimed to explain the results, complication rates, tips, and tricks of the largest number of LLDN case series ever performed in the literature.