Kidneys from live donors are considered more likely to be successful in treating endstage renal disease than those from cadaver donors. The standard technique for retrieving kidneys from live donors ...

Indications for nephrectomy (including nephroureterectomy) include renal cell or urethral cancer and benign conditions that lead to a poorly functioning or non-functioning kidney. These benign ...

Live donor kidney transplantation was first applied as a clinical strategy in pediatric transplantation because of the disparate wait by children compared with adults for cadaveric donor kidneys. As ...

Experts recently developed 23 consensus practice points/statements regarding the use of nephrectomy in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Regardless of when it was performed in ...