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Laterality of Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy in Adult Kidney Transplantation

Key takeaways

This study of 100 kidney transplants found that using the left vs right renal artery affects surgical difficulty. It does not change long-term graft survival.

Who did this work

Takahisa Hiramitsu (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Ayano Ienaga (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Yuki Shimamoto (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Tomoki Himeno (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Yuki Hasegawa (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Kenta Futamura (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Manabu Okada (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Yutaka Matsuoka (Nagoya Memorial Hospital) · Shunji Narumi (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital) · Kazuharu Uchida (Nagoya Memorial Hospital) · Yoshihiko Watarai (Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-08-11
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2026.07.024