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01-02-2012 | Invited Commentary

Renal Vein Lengthening Using Gonadal Vein Reduces Surgical Difficulty in Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation

Author: David Scott

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 2/2012

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Living donor kidney donation offers many patients the best hope for the treatment of renal failure. Approximately 6,000 living donor kidney transplants are performed annually in the United States with the 1-year graft survival exceeding 95% [1], Long-term donor follow-up studies are limited, but recent studies have shown that kidney donors have survivals similar to those of age-matched cohorts. Also, the absence of one kidney does not seem to increase the risk of renal failure [2, 3]. The evaluation of potential living kidney donors is not well standardized, but many centers perform imaging or functional studies and leave the donor with the larger or higher functioning kidney. …

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Title: Renal Vein Lengthening Using Gonadal Vein Reduces Surgical Difficulty in Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation
Author: David Scott
Publication date: 01-02-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 2/2012
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-011-1350-x

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Renal Vein Lengthening Using Gonadal Vein Reduces Surgical Difficulty in Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation

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