April 22, 2010 (Landover, Maryland) — Hand-assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy appears to be the most cost-effective procedure and yields the most favorable patient outcomes, according to new data ...

The advantages of a minimally invasive nephrectomy are a faster recovery and better quality of life for the donors. Until recently, the majority of donor nephrectomies in Poland were done by open ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to remove a patient's entire kidney requires slightly longer operating times and results in increased costs compared with the use of traditional laparoscopic ...

It is no coincidence that advances in keyhole surgery ten years ago led to a steady rise in the number of people deciding to donate a kidney. The operation, which can be performed via an incision so ...

Surgery is generally the first line treatment for localized kidney cancer (cancer that has not spread). Partial nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a portion of a kidney (normally used to treat ...

Patients with chronic kidney disease who received robot-assisted partial nephrectomy to treat kidney cancer have minimal loss of kidney function -- a smaller amount even than patients with normal ...

Validation of MSKCC-criteria in metastatic renal cancer patients treated with sorafenib or sunitinib. Background: Although nephron-sparing surgery is the standard of care for the treatment of small ...

Intuitive, a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery, released the findings of India’s largest collaborative and multi-institutional study on ...

Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy is an emerging technique that potentially provides advantages over conventional laparoscopic approaches. A retrospective multi-institutional study suggests that ...