title: Hand-assisted and pure laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy: a matched-cohort comparison over 10 yr at a single institute.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare outcomes between matched patients who underwent hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (HALDN) and pure laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (PLDN) from living donors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Between February 2000 and July 2012, 608 consecutive patients underwent laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy at a single center. In September 2003, we began to perform the PLDN for the first time. A matched-pair cohort of 80 patients who underwent PLDN and 80 patients who underwent HALDN was selected for retrospective comparison.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No significant differences in operative time, warm ischemia time, estimated blood loss, transfusion rate, analgesic requirement, or hospital stay were observed between the HALDN and PLDN groups. No differences were found in the recipient serum creatinine values (mg/dL) and estimated glomerular filtration rate by the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD-eGFR; mL/min/1.73 m(2) ).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  No significant differences were observed in surgical outcomes, complication rates, and postoperative parameters between the HALDN and PLDN groups. Moreover, recipient graft function and morbidity between both groups were comparable. Therefore, we believe that PLDN may be a good alternative technique to HALDN.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Sae Woong
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Kang Sup
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seol
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yong Sun
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Woong Jin
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Bae
authors.forename: Sung-Hoo
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Ji Youl
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sae Woong
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Tae-Kon
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Hyuk Jin
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D058733:Hand-Assisted Laparoscopy; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D016555:Matched-Pair Analysis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000379:methods*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*
keywords: hand-assisted; kidney transplantation; living donor; nephrectomy; pure laparoscopic