key articles
Incisional surgical site infection in kidney transplantation
Saturday, 12 April 2008 - Incisional surgical site infections are common bacterial infections in kidney transplantation. Ramos et al. (2008) determined the incidence, timing, etiology, and risk factors for incisional surgical...
Authors: Ramos et al.
Treatment options in PCa after kidney transplant
Thursday, 27 March 2008 - Renal transplantation recipients are becoming increasingly older and, moreover, live longer with a functional transplant. Consequently, the probability to detect prostate cancer is higher than in the...
Filed by: Joel Vega
Laparoscopic Ureterocystoplasty Before Kidney Transplantation
Wednesday, 5 March 2008 - Ramalingam et al. (2008) reported report of a case of total laparoscopic ureterocystoplasty in India.Laparoscopic ureterocystoplasty was performed to optimize the bladder function before kidney...
Authors: Ramalingam et al.
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.
Right laparoscopic donor nephrectomy and the use of inverted kidney transplantation: an alternative technique
Thursday, 15 November 2007 - Simforoosh et al. (2007) reported a novel approach to overcome the problems associated with a short right renal vein harvested by clipping the vein during right laparoscopic donor nephrectomy...
Authors: Simforoosh et al.
Bladder carcinoma among live-donor renal transplant recipients: a single-centre experience and a review of the literature
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 - Kamal et al. (2007) reported their experience with bladder cancer among a renal transplant population and to review critically the relevant literature.
In all, 1865 renal graft recipients were...
Authors: Kamal et al.
