The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic kidneys.
ABSTRACT: Background and Aim: The technique of laparoscopic nephrectomy represents a significant advancement in reducing perioperative complications, postoperative morbidity, and hospitalization ...
The cumulative incidence of scrotal surgery over 20 years was 13.8% and 0.7% in donors and nondonors, respectively. HealthDay News — For male living kidney donors, laparoscopic nephrectomy is ...
Live donor kidney transplantation was first applied as a clinical strategy in pediatric transplantation because of the disparate wait by children compared with adults for cadaveric donor kidneys. As ...
The following is a summary of “Laparoscopic vs. Open nephrectomy for inflammatory renal conditions: a meta-analysis emphasizing safety,” published in the April 2025 issue of BMC Urology by Alsmadi et ...
ABSTRACT: Background: Partial nephrectomy is recognized as the gold standard treatment for localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC). While open partial nephrectomy has long been a conventional approach, ...
This study investigated the impact of an improved body positioning on the effectiveness of EDGE MP1000 robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. We compared clinical data from 39 patients who ...
Nephron-sparing surgery may not reduce the risk for later kidney failure in patients with kidney cancer and stage 4 CKD. Despite the promise of nephron-sparing, new study findings suggest that the ...
The risk of death for people who donate a kidney for transplantation - already small a decade ago - has dropped by more than half since then, a new study shows. Each year, roughly 6,000 Americans ...