title: Single center experience with elective surgical patients as living kidney donors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a single center experience with elective surgical patients as living kidney donors.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively analyzed a prospective database of 458 living kidney donors from September 2005 to May 2011. Fifteen (3.2%) of them were elective surgical patients simultaneously undergoing living donor nephrectomy. We reviewed age, gender, operative time, intraoperative blood transfusion, intra- and postoperative complications, as well as length of hospital stay. Recipients were evaluated for delayed graft function. Four hundred forty-three patients undergoing living donor nephrectomy alone composed the control group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the elective surgical patients group, the mean (range) operative time was 155 (90 to 310) minutes and mean (range) length of hospital stay was 3 (2 to 9) days. One (6.7%) recipient displayed delayed graft function. Among the regular living kidney donors group, the mean (range) operative time was 100 (70 to 150) minutes, mean (range) length of hospital stay was 3 (2 to 5) days, and delayed graft function was observed in 5.6% of recipients. Only operative time (P = .03) was significantly different between the groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Elective surgical patients are potential donors who may be treated at the same time as the living donor nephrectomy.
authors.affiliation: Renal Transplantation Unit, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Falci
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Torricelli
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Antonopoulos
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Piovesan
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kanashiro
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: G X
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Ebaid
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Nahas
mesh_terms: D000315:Adrenalectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D051799:Delayed Graft Function / Q000209:etiology; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D059685:Herniorrhaphy / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D008136:Longevity; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome