title: Interaortocaval renal artery dissection for right laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
abstract: Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy is gaining increasing popularity because the procedure helps reduce disincentives to live kidney donation and has increased the live kidney donor pool. The left kidney of the donor is the preferred allograft because the right renal vein is shorter. Similarly, the right renal artery might be foreshortened because it hides behind the inferior vena cava during laparoscopic transperitoneal dissection. There are instances, however, in which it is not practical to take the left kidney due to vascular anomalies or asymmetric function. We describe a novel technique for obtaining greater renal arterial length utilizing laparoscopic interaortocaval dissection.
authors.affiliation: James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, 600 N. Wolfe St., Jefferson Street Building, Suite 161, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Ratner
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Kavoussi
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta; D004210:Dissection; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior