Obesity impacts access to kidney transplantation
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 - Current billing practices and mandates to report surgical outcomes are disincentives to surgical treatment of obese patients, who are at increased risk for longer hospital stays and higher complication...
Authors: Segev et al.
Laparoscopic Versus Open Live Donor Nephrectomy in Renal Transplantation: A Meta-Analysis
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 - Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy has gained widespread acceptance and is increasingly performed. The body of evidence assessing the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic compared with established open...
Authors: Nanidis et al.
Ureterocystoplasty is safe and effective in patients awaiting renal transplantation
Thursday, 3 January 2008 - Taghizadeh et al. (2007) assessed surgical outcomes and bladder function in a group of patients who had undergone ureterocystoplasty while awaiting renal transplantation.
An observational cohort study...
Authors: Taghizadeh et al.
Routine Stenting Reduces Urologic Complications as Compared with Stenting "On Demand" in Adult Kidney Transplantation
Monday, 24 December, 2007 -Complications after kidney transplantation are among the most frequent causes for an unplanned return to the operating room. Georgiev et al. (2007) examined the impact of the chosen surgical technique...
Authors: Georgiev et al.
Pretransplant laparoscopic nephrectomy in adult polycystic kidney disease: a single centre experience
Monday, 17 December 2007 - Desai et al. (2007) reported their experience with pretransplant laparoscopic nephrectomy in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), as ADPKD often progresses to end-stage...
Authors: Desai et al.
