As indicated by Sprenkle, monitoring the NGAL increase in serum may be less misleading because the increase in the production in ischemic kidney in partial
nephrectomies of healthy patients with two functional kidneys might be diluted if the opposite kidney produces a high volume of urine (13).
Perioperative outcomes of 6042
nephrectomies in 2012: surgeon-reported results in the UK from the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) nephrectomy database.
Experience with 750 consecutive laparoscopic donor
nephrectomies: is time to use standardized classification of complications?
For their study, the research team analyzed retrospective data on all
nephrectomies from all payers from seven states (Arizona,Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and Washington) to extract data on 21,569 kidney cancer surgeries.
Posselt et al., "More than 500 consecutive laparoscopic donor
nephrectomies without conversion or repeated surgery," Archives of Surgery, vol.
UCLA experience with 511 radical
nephrectomies. Journal of Urology February, 163(2), 437-441
More radical
nephrectomies were performed transperitoneally in each BMI-stratified group (p=0.019, p=0.002 and p=0.054, respectively) and in the entire study cohort.
Schweitzer and colleagues reported that the availability of laparoscopic donor
nephrectomies was independently associated with a 1.9 relative risk of receiving a live donor transplant (Ann.
Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy is the gold standard for performing live donor
nephrectomies, however, there is no consensus as to the best variation of the technique.
Comparative series have demonstrated that partial
nephrectomies are non-inferior to radical
nephrectomies with respect to oncological results and provide additional benefits to the patient.
Objective: To assess the frequency of simple
nephrectomies for benign diseases and compare it with the frequency of
nephrectomies for malignant diseases.
After institutional approval, data from 100 consecutive related living donor (RLD)
nephrectomies performed over a 33-month period between September 2008 and June 2011, were retrospectively collected and analysed.