Right-sided Hand-Assisted RetroPeritoneoscopic versus standard laparoscopic donor nephrectomy

Authors
Category Primary study
Registry of TrialsNetherlands Trial Register
Year 2011
INTERVENTION: This trial randomizes donors for either laparoscopic or hand‐assisted retroperitoneoscopic (HARP) donor nephrectomy to assess the role of HARP for kidney donation. CONDITION: ; Donor nephrectomy, Live kidney donors ; ; PRIMARY OUTCOME: Surgery time. SECONDARY OUTCOME: 1. Quality of life (SF‐36, EQ‐5D); ; ; 2. Costefficacy from a healthcare and societal perspective; ; ; 3. Intra‐ and postoperative complications; ; ; 4. Postoperative pain‐recovery; ; ; 5. Hospital stay and resumption of work; ; ; 6. Kidney function of donor and recipient; ; ; 7. Transplantfunction of the recipient. INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Potential participants are those willing and approved to donate a kidney by life; 2. Participants must be able to donate the right kidney, not have undergone kidney or adrenal gland surgery on the right side and understand English sufficiently to fill out the questionnaires.
Epistemonikos ID: 46d64b420ab6cf0ef5d85f7f2b949b88cda236bd
First added on: Aug 22, 2024