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Conventional Laparoscopic Versus Laparoendoscopic Single Site Donor Nephrectomy in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01236326

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Official title

A Randomized, Prospective, Parallel Group Study of Conventional Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy (LDN) Versus Laparoendoscopic Single Site Donor Nephrectomy (LESS-DN) in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

Brief summary

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Laparoscopic nephrectomy (removal of the kidney) is the most common procedure for people donating a kidney to be used for living donor kidney transplantation. Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) was a great advance in the field of living donor kidney transplantation due to the many advantages it offers over open nephrectomy, including significantly shorter hospitalization and recovery time, and significantly improved cosmetic result related to the nephrectomy scar(s). More recently, a new procedure has been introduced to the field of laparoscopic nephrectomy, called laparoendoscopic single site donor nephrectomy (LESS-DN). In the LESS-DN procedure, a single natural orifice (the umbilicus or belly button) is used as the single incision site through which the entire donor nephrectomy is performed. The LESS-DN procedure may further decrease donor morbidity by further decreasing length of stay, lessening recovery time, and improving satisfaction with the surgical scar. The investigators propose to evaluate conventional LDN versus a LESS-DN in a randomized, controlled trial in living kidney donors. The investigators will compare operative times and intra-operative donor management, intra- and post-operative complications, pain scores, analgesic requirements, length of stay, recovery parameters, surgical scar satisfaction, and function and survival of the transplanted kidney for the two groups of subjects: (1) the group that has the conventional laparoscopic donor nephrectomy; and, (2) the group that has the laparoendoscopic single site donor nephrectomy.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01236326
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
105 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Oct 31, 2010
Primary completion
May 31, 2013
Completion
Sep 30, 2013
Last update posted
Jun 11, 2019

2010 – 2013

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center New York New York 10065

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