Trends in kidney transplantation and living donor nephrectomy in Germany: a total population analysis from 2006 to 2021
Aristeidis Zacharis,
Philipp Reimold,
Cem Aksoy
et al.
Abstract:Purpose
To analyze recent trends of surgical access routes, length of hospital stay (LOS), and mortality in kidney transplantation (KT) and living donor nephrectomy (LDN) in Germany.
Materials and methods
We studied the nationwide German hospital billing database and the German hospital quality reports from 2006 to 2021.
Results
There were a total of 35.898 KTs. In total, 9044 (25%) were living donor t… Show more
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