Self-Reported Outcome of Living Kidney Donation Correlates With Perioperative Complications not With Surgical Techniques.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The German health care system lacks data on surgical complications and self-reported outcomes (SROs) of living donors. The prospective German Living Kidney Donor Registry, SOLKID-GNR aims to improve the assessment of donors' medical and psychosocial risks.

Methods

Data were collected before (PRE) and 3 months after (POST) living kidney donation from transplantation centers (TCs) and donors via SROs. We reported perioperative complication rates for different surgical techniques and correlated them with donors' SROs. Datasets of 1020 donors from 30 German TCs were analyzed.

Results

Donor nephrectomy procedures included laparoscopic (57.9%), retroperitoneoscopic (21.4%), open retroperitoneal (16.0%), or open abdominal nephrectomy (4.7%). Perioperative compli

SUBMITTER: Koch M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12446988 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature