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Published on: March 12, 2011
Unilateral pulmonary edema after laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: report of two cases
Shelby N Morrisroe1, Russell T Wall, Amy D Lu
1Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. morrisroesn@upmc.edu
Journal of Endourology
|August 21, 2007
Abstract:
Unilateral pulmonary edema of the dependent lung presented after laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy in two patients. Treatment with O(2) supplementation and diuretics resulted in relief of symptoms and radiographic improvement. The presumed causes of this previously unreported complication of laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy include prolonged lateral decubitus positioning and high fluid requirements.
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