Abstract:Objective: Donor availability is an important limiting factor in renal transplant programs; consequently, it is important to be able to use every vital organ independent of the vascular anatomy. Method: It is reported a successful case-story of hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy in a 69-year-old related donor with triple renal vessels. The estimated blood loss was of 100 mL, the operative time was of 80 minutes and the warm ischemia time was of 3.0 minutes. The transplant was performed in the left iliac fo… Show more
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