Moving toward outpatient kidney transplantation: A case report

2024 marked the 70th anniversary of kidney transplantation, and although great strides have been made in the field, there have been few major changes in the perioperative care of kidney transplantation itself. Most patients receiving this operation worldwide undergo general anesthesia with hospital lengths of stay averaging 5 to 7 days. We present the case of a patient who underwent a living donor-related kidney transplantation managed with a combination of enhanced recovery techniques and a neuraxial anesthetic resulting in a 23-hour hospital stay. We believe this case represents significant innovation in the management of renal transplantation and may set the foundation for further studies to shift the paradigm of in-patient renal transplantation to an outpatient procedure with less than 24 hours in-hospital length of stay.