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Robot-Assisted Kidney Transplantation
Published on: July 19, 2021
[Living donor kidney transplantation: a surgical procedure]
Rafael Gutiérrez del Pozo1, David Truán Cacho, Agustín Franco de Castro
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Clinico de Barcelona, España.
Objectives:
The objective of this paper is to review the various surgical techniques for living donor kidney transplantation.
Methods:
We perform a bibliographic review adding our experience in living kidney transplantation.
Results:
We present various techniques indicating which one is the most appropriate for each case.
Conclusions:
We should promote living door kidney transplantation if we want to increase the number of transplants performed. It is a complex transplant because the graft lacks of vascular patches; there are various surgical techniques that we can choose depending on the case.
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