Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy
Article published in Urologia Polska 2008/61/2.

authors

Marcin Słojewski, Tomasz Śluzar, Adam Gołąb, Jerzy Chłodny, Samir Zeair, Marek Umiński, Krzysztof Dziewanowski, Andrzej Sikorski: Katedra i Klinika Urologii Pomorskiej Akademii Medycznej w Szczecinie
Oddział Chirurgii Ogólnej i Transplantacji Samodzielnego Publicznego Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Zespolonego w Szczecinie
Ośrodek Nefrologii, Dializy i Transplantacji Nerek Samodzielnego Publicznego Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Zespolonego
w Szczecinie

The kidney donation from live volunteers remains the most consistent factor which affects the long-term survival after transplantation.

The conventional, open method of donor nephrectomy is associated with significant surgical trauma and possibility of complications

mostly due to large abdominal incision. The laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy (LDN) is the alternative for open approach. We

present first in polish medical literature case of LDN. Retroperitoneoscopic access was applied, the operation time was 210 minutes

and immediate function of transplanted kidney was observed.

We hope that this successful initial case of LDN will popularize the idea of kidney donation in Poland.

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Marcin Słojewski
Klinika Urologii PAM
ul. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72
70-111 Szczecin
tel. (091) 466 11 00
martwist@post.pl