PMID: 11903390Mar 21, 2002Paper

Multiple renal arteries do not pose an impediment to the routine use of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy

Clinical Transplantation
T JohnstonD Ranjan

Abstract

Since the first description by Ratner and collegues in 1996, laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy is gaining wide acceptance in an attempt to minimize the donor morbidity, length of hospital stay and length of time to return to work. It is unknown whether multiple renal arteries pose additional problems with laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. In November 1998, our institution initiated laparoscopic donor nephrectomy program. In the ensuing 19 months, we performed 25 living donor renal transplants, 24 of them using laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. The left kidney was procured in all cases. Eight donor candidates (33%) had two or more renal arteries (two arteries in five patients and three patients). In six cases (25%), findings at surgery differed from the CT angography results (in four cases, CT angiogram reported fewer arteries than were found at surgery and in two cases it reported more). We found no significant differences in both donor outcomes and recipient, based on the presence or absence of multiple renal arteries. Among donor outcomes, we found equivalent results for donor warm ischemia time total donor operating time, and donor length of stay. For recipient outcomes, we found no significant differences between groups for t...Continue Reading

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