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. 2015 Jun 8;2015:671267. doi: 10.1155/2015/671267

Table 4.

Complications by Clavien grade.

Grade I (i) Atelectasis in 3 patients†,‡
(ii) Pneumothorax, resolved without drain
(iii) Gluteal compartment syndrome§

Grade II (i) Pneumonia 
(ii) Blood transfusion in 2 patients‡,||
(iii) DVT/PE

Grade IIIa Haematuria requiring angiogram: negative study, haematuria spontaneously resolved

Grade IIIb (i) Laparoscopy for investigation of acute abdomen, no abnormalities found, likely reperfusion injury
(ii) Conversion to open nephrectomy for significant venous bleeding||

Grade IV None

Grade V None

One patient had both atelectasis and pneumothorax.

One patient had both blood transfusion and atelectasis.

§Conservative management only. Fasciotomy not required.

||The patient who underwent conversion to open nephrectomy also received blood transfusion.