Journal of Medical Insight

2373-6003

JoMI

Boston, Massachusetts

170

10.24296/jomi/170

Research article

Left Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy

2024

2024 01

2017 Journal of Medical Insight

2017

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Over the past decade, laparoscopic donor nephrectomy has gradually replaced the conventional open approach and has become the standard of care in living donor kidney transplantations. Compared to open nephrectomy, laparoscopic nephrectomy reduces postoperative pain, shortens the length of hospital stay, and improves the cosmetic outcome. The following illustrates our standard technique of pure laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.

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