Renal transplantation is the best long-term treatment option for patients with end-stage renal disease. Unfortunately, there is a large disparity between the number of patients waiting for a kidney ...

The best option for patients with end-stage renal disease is kidney transplantation. Increased demand for organs has driven the rise in living donor nephrectomy procedures, in which it is important ...

A population-based cohort study evaluated the long-term scrotal surgery rates after laparoscopic nephrectomy in male living ...

April 22, 2010 (Landover, Maryland) — Hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy appears to be the most cost-effective procedure and yields the most favorable patient outcomes, according to new data ...

Background: Standard methods for assessment of organ viability during surgery are typically limited to visual cues and tactile feedback in open surgery. However, during laparoscopic surgery, these ...

The risk of major complications for people who donate a kidney via laparoscopic surgery is minimal. That is the conclusion of a 20-year study of more than 3,000 living kidney donors. Only 2.5% of ...

The FDA and the Health Resources and Services Administration have sent out a joint alert telling providers that Weck Hem-o-Lok ligating clips should not be used for the ligation of the renal artery ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Findings showed no significant differences in surgical outcomes among age groups. Mortality rates were highest ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — As public television and radio station WITF’s digital services manager, Ashlee Edwards crunches a lot of data. Big numbers. But you don’t have to be too good at numbers to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 47 donors in the study developed sustained low eGFR or moderate-severe albuminuria. Median time for the ...

A population-based cohort study evaluated the long-term scrotal surgery rates after laparoscopic nephrectomy in male living kidney donors compared with nondonors.