Living Donor Nephrectomy Using a Right Malrotated Kidney: A Case Report

Transplant Proc. 2021 May;53(4):1279-1280. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2020.10.004. Epub 2020 Nov 25.

Abstract

A 46-year-old woman was approved as a living kidney donor in our center for paired donation working with the National Kidney Registry. The imaging revealed a malrotated right kidney with the hilum oriented cephalad. We selected that kidney for donation, and an uneventful laparoscopic donor nephrectomy was performed. To our knowledge, this is the first case of laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy using a sagittally malrotated kidney.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney / abnormalities*
  • Kidney / surgery
  • Kidney Transplantation*
  • Laparoscopy / methods*
  • Living Donors
  • Middle Aged
  • Nephrectomy / methods*
  • Tissue and Organ Harvesting / methods*