| Title | Hand-assisted laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy as an alternative to traditional laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2002 |
| Authors | Buell JF, Hanaway MJ, Potter SR, Cronin DC, Yoshida A, Munda R, Alexander JW, Newell KA, Bruce DS, Woodle ES |
| Journal | Am J Transplant |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pagination | 983 - 8 |
| Date Published | Nov |
| Accession Number | 12482153 |
| Keywords | *Living Donors, Activities of Daily Living, Comparative Study, Costs and Cost Analysis, Humans, Kidney Transplantation / methods / physiology, Laparoscopy / economics / *methods, Length of Stay, Nephrectomy / economics / *methods, Ohio, Pain, Postoperative / drug therapy / epidemiology, Posture, Time Factors |
| Abstract | The benefits of laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (LDN) are well described, while similar data on hand-assisted laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (HALDN) are lacking. We compare hand-assisted laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy with open donor nephrectomy. One hundred consecutive hand-assisted laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (10/98-8/01) donor/recipient pairs were compared to 50 open donor nephrectomy pairs (8/97-1/00). Mean donor weights were similar (179.6 +/- 40.8 vs. 167.4 +/- 30.3 lb; p = NS), while donor age was greater among hand-assisted laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (38.2 +/- 9.5 vs. 31.2 +/- 7.8 year; p |
| Notify Library Reference ID | 245 |
