Donor Recipient Kidney Function Following Open Surgical vs. Laparoscopic Kidney Donation

Completed

Conditions studied: Kidney Transplantation

In brief

This study will evaluate the differences between open surgical kidney donation and laparoscopic kidney donation on kidney donors and recipients. Both procedures are standard surgeries used to remove kidneys for donation, and they are done equally often. Open surgical kidney donation involves removing the donor kidney through a 3- to 5-inch surgical incision. Laparoscopic donation involves making several small holes in the skin and removing the kidney through a larger hole, while directly watching the kidney with a camera. The study will correlate the effects of both procedures with donor and recipient kidney function, urine output, post-operative pain, and return to work after surgery. Adults without kidney disease who are willing to donate a kidney to a patient enrolled in a clinical transplant protocol at the NIH Clinical Center may be eligible for this study. Donors and recipients must be enrolled in the NIDDK protocol, Live Donor Renal Donation for Allotransplantation (protocol #99-DK-0107). Donors and patients undergo the following procedures: * Infrared imaging (measurement of small differences in temperature using a special camera) during surgery to look at blood flow to the kidney during the operation (both donor and recipient surgical procedures). The pictures provide images of the blood vessels in the kidney and measure how the blood flow changes. * Kidney biopsy (removal of a small piece of kidney tissue). The patient's failed kidney is biopsied once during transplant surgery when it is removed. The donor's kidney is biopsied twice - once during surgery to remove the organ from the donor and again after transplant into the recipient. * Evaluations after surgery of post-operative urine output, blood pressure, and pain, and length of hospital stay and return to work.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00100516
Run by
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
People needed
40
Starts
2004-12-23
Expected to finish
2008-06-17
Last updated by the study team
2017-07-02

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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