Journal of Clinical Medicine
Open Versus Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
By Rajan Nikbakhsh, Sepehr Abbasi Dezfouli, Nastaran Sabetkish and 10 others.
Abstract
Background/Objectives: Although minimally invasive laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) has been established as the standard method for donor nephrectomy for adult recipients in recent years, there might still be a role for conventional open donor nephrectomy (ODN) in pediatric kidney transplantation (KTx). To investigate this, we compared the outcomes of LDN with those of ODN in pediatric patients.
