The first national experience of laparoscopic removal of the transplanted kidney

: As a rule, the excision of a non-functioning renal graft in late (over 12 months) post-transplant period is performed using Fedorov subcapsular technique. This is because the kidney is embedded in scar tissue due to immune response to the allograft. This surgical approach is associated with the two major complications: bleeding during surgery or early postoperative hematoma and infection of hematoma confined in the remaining kidney capsule. To reduce blood loss and the risk of inflammatory complications, we, for the first time, carried out laparoscopic transplantectomy in a 42 year old female patient using the extracapsular technique. The operative time was 245 min, intraoperative blood loss - 350 ml. The patient was discharged to outpatient treatment on the 10th day. For the first time, such a surgery was successfully performed in 2010 in Turkey; in 2014 robotic transplantectomy was reported in the United States. No data on laparoscopic transplantectomy was found in the available national sources.