Background Minimally invasive live donor nephrectomy has become a fully implemented
and accepted procedure. Donors have to be well educated about all risks and details during …

Background The concept of a minimally invasive live donor nephrectomy developed over 20
years ago. Surgeons gained expertise with the laparoscopic technique and utilized multiple …

BACKGROUND: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) uses natural
orifices to access the abdominal cavity. We adapted NOTES to perform transvaginal NOTES …

Transvaginal recovery of the kidney has recently been reported, in a donor who had
previously undergone a hysterectomy, as a less-invasive approach to perform laparoscopic …

OBJECTIVE: To report a novel surgical approach of transvaginal hybrid natural orifice
transluminal surgery (NOTES) living donor nephrectomy. We conceptualized this approach …

Background Various incisions are employed for graft extraction during minimally invasive
donor nephrectomy, but an overarching synthesis of associated short-term donor outcomes …

Purpose: To assess the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy with
transvaginal extraction and impact of body mass index (BMI), menopausal status, previous …

In an effort to increase living donor transplantation while minimizing risk and morbidity,
recent advances have been made in surgical technique, kidney paired donation …

Living donation is the key to increasing access to successful solid organ transplantation
worldwide. However, the means to expanding the number of living donors on a global scale …

What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Innovations in laparoscopic
surgery have provided transplant surgeons with a range of techniques as well as a vast …