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Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Kidney Transplantation: Preliminary Clinical Experiences from China

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Abstract

Objective

To report on the pioneering clinical experiences of six cases of extraperitoneal laparoscopic kidney transplantation in China.

Methods

For the first time in clinical practice, a customised, controllable double-circulation cooling device was used to protect the transplanted kidney. Of the six patients, two underwent an allograft renal transplantation because they had been diagnosed with uraemia and were on maintenance haemodialysis. The other four patients underwent kidney autotransplantation because of a central renal tumour.

Results

The extraperitoneal laparoscopic kidney transplantations were successfully completed between 2017 and 2018. The operative time for the two patients undergoing the allograft transplantation was 3–3.5 h. The time for venous anastomosis was approximately 53–65 min, and the time for arterial anastomosis was approximately 25–30 min. The creatinine level was 90–80 μmol/L after surgery. The operative time of the four patients who underwent autotransplantation was 9.4–17.5 h. The times of venous and arterial anastomosis were 58–90 min and 35–48 min, respectively. The follow-up B-mode ultrasound after surgery showed good blood supply in the spared nephron. A renal graft was removed from one patient 6 months after surgery because of renal atrophy and dysfunction caused by poor blood supply. Five patients (two undergoing allografting and three undergoing autografting) completed the 12-month follow-up, and their renal graft function was good.

Conclusions

Extraperitoneal laparoscopic kidney transplantation, either allograft or autologous transplantation, is a safe and feasible procedure with a good chance of survival for the transplanted kidney. A customised cooling device is effective and practical during laparoscopic kidney transplantation.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the hard and dedicated work of all the staff that implemented the intervention and evaluation components of the study. We thank the participants of the study.

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Authorship

All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this article, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given their approval for this version to be published.

Disclosures

The authors (Xuhui Zhu, Yongwei Zhao, Xiuwu Han, Yansheng Li, Peng Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Gao Li, Chunhong Xiang) have nothing to disclose.

Compliance with Ethics Guidelines

This study was conducted with approval from the Ethics Committee of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (2017-ke-191). This study was conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki.

Written informed consent document was obtained from all participants.

Among the six kidney transplant patients, four were patients with autologous kidney transplant, which did not involve ethical issues of transplantation. The other two cases were kidney transplants, both obtained through legal organ donation channels at local hospitals (Department of Urology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China), with the donors' knowledge and consent.

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All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article. We declared that materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality.

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  1. Institute of Urology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Xuhui Zhu, Xiuwu Han, Yansheng Li, Peng Zhang, Siyuan Wang & Gao Li

  2. Department of Urology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Xuhui Zhu, Xiuwu Han, Yansheng Li, Peng Zhang, Siyuan Wang & Gao Li

  3. Department of Urology, Taian City Central Hospital, Taian, 271000, Shangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Yongwei Zhao

  4. School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China

    Yongwei Zhao

  5. Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100043, People’s Republic of China

    Chunhong Xiang

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Zhu, X., Zhao, Y., Han, X. et al. Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Kidney Transplantation: Preliminary Clinical Experiences from China. Adv Ther 38, 1677–1689 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12325-021-01639-4

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Keywords

  • Cooling device
  • Extraperitoneal
  • Kidney transplantation
  • Laparoscopy