Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the results of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy with open donor nephrectomy. Methods: A non-randomized prospective analysis was conducted of living donor kidney transplantations (118 open donor nephrectomies; 57 laparoscopic donor nephrectomies) between January 2005 and December 2007 in the Kidney Transplantation Unit of Hospital das Clínicas of Fa...

OBJECTIVE To gain information about the indications for and complications of conventional nephrectomy as practiced in a teaching hospital of Pakistan. METHODS Medical records of patients who underwent nephrectomy during five years period from January 2001 to December 2005 were studied with regards to clinical presentation, indication for nephrectomy, histopathological report, post-operative c...

perioperative stress and anesthesia are risk factors for exacerbation of multiple sclerosis (ms) attacks. infection, emotional labiality and hyperpyrexia are also known to increase the risk of postoperative ms attacks. appropriate preoperative evaluation, administration of a good premedication, control of fever, selection of the anesthetic agents and effective postoperative pain control can pre...

dioctophyma renale infection is found in a wide range of mammalian species, typically in temperate areas of the world. here, we report for the first time, the parasitism of a domestic dog by d. renale in hamedan, iran, a mountainous cold region, lacking significant amounts of rainfall, high humidity and temperature. a 2.5 yr old male mixed breed dog was presented with a two months history of pr...

OBJECTIVES With the advent of laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, there has been a general underuse of right laparoscopic donor nephrectomy versus left because of concerns regarding higher complication rates and poorer outcomes. We performed a retrospective analysis of our laparoscopic donor nephrectomy series with an emphasis on the side of the kidney retrieved and the outcomes of donors and recip...

Renin has been identified in the adrenal gland by several investigators. Nephrectomy is the most potent stimulator of adrenal renin, and in the present study we investigated the mechanism by which nephrectomy stimulates adrenal renin. The pituitary plays a permissive role since hypophysectomy abolished the response of adrenal renin to nephrectomy (from 117.3 +/- 14.55 to 10.37 +/- 1.63 ng angio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this retrospective study was to compare conventional laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy with transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery-assisted living-donor nephrectomy in terms of feasibility and reproducibility. METHODS A total of 115 consecutive female patients who underwent laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (n=70) or transvagi...

primitive  neuroectodermal  tumor  (pnet)  of  kidney  is  an  extremely  rare  renal  neoplasm  with only about fifty reported cases in literature.  presumably,of neural crest origin, these tumors behave  aggressively  and  carry  a  poor prognosis.  we  report  a  case  of  22-year  old  female  patient complaining of left loin pain with recurrent hematuria for last 3 months. on clinical exam...

Renal cell carcinoma comprises about 2% of adult tumors. The overall 10-year survival rate of patients with RCC after nephrectomy is about 18-27%. The incidence of metastasis of initial RCC is about 24-28%, but this rate after nephrectomy is as high as 51%. The most common site of recurrence is the lung, however liver and bone metastases are common.There are many reported cases with late metast...

BACKGROUND The indication and timing of nephrectomy in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) remain controversial, especially in patients who are candidates to renal transplantation (RT). The main surgical options such as unilateral vs. bilateral nephrectomy, nephrectomy before vs. after RT, or simultaneous nephrectomy and transplantation, are herein discussed. OB...