Urology
Volume 71, Issue 5 , Pages 964-966 , May 2008

Retroperitoneoscopic Donor Nephrectomy for Retroaortic Renal Vein Draining Into Left Common Iliac Vein

  • Pranjal Modi

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Pranjal Modi, M.D., Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre, Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Civil Hospital Campus, Ahmedabad-380 016, Gujarat, India.

Received 30 September 2007 ,Accepted 19 November 2007.

References 

  1. Jacobs S, Cho E, Dunkin B, et al. Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy: the University of Maryland 3-year experience. J Urol. 2000;164:1494–1499
  2. Buell JF, Lee L, Martin JE, et al. Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy vs. open live donor nephrectomy: a quality of life and functional study. Clin Transplant. 2005;19:102–109
  3. Walker TG, Geller SC, Delmotgomery RA, et al. Donor renal angiography: its influence on the decision to use the right or left kidney. Am J Roentgentol. 1988;151:1149–1151
  4. Mandal AK, Cohen C, Montgomery RA, et al. Should the indications for laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy of the right kidney be the same as for the open procedure? (Anomalous left renal vasculature is not a contraindication to laparoscopic left donor nephrectomy). Transplantation. 2001;71:660–664
  5. Brancatelli G, Galia M, Finazzo M, et al. Retroaortic left renal vein joining the left common iliac vein. Eur Radiol. 2000;10(11):1724–1725
  6. Koc Z, Ulusan S, Oquzkurt L, et al. Venous variants and anomalies in routine abdominal multi-detector row CT. Eur Radiol. 2007;61(2):267–278
  7. Karaman B, Koplay M, Ozturk E, et al. Retroaortic left renal vein: multidetector computed tomography angiography findings and its clinical importance. Acta Radiol. 2007;48(3):355–360
  8. Koc Z, Ulusan S, Oguzkurt L. Association of left renal vein variations and pelvic varices in abdominal MDCT. Eur Radiol. 2007;17(5):1267–1274
  9. Lin CH, Steinberg AP, Ramani AP, et al. Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy in the presence of circumaortic or retroaortic left renal vein. J Urol. 2004;171(1):44–46

PII: S0090-4295(07)02489-2

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.104

Urology
Volume 71, Issue 5 , Pages 964-966 , May 2008

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution