Table 1.
Study characteristics.
| Author | Year of publication | Study design | Sample size (n) |
Study period | Age, years (mean) | Male: Female | Left: Right | Technique | Control group(s) |
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| Gorodner (n.v.a.) [8] | 2006 | Retrospective | 148 | 2000-2005 | 35 | 74:74 | 148:0 | RALDN | - |
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| Gorodner (v.a.) [8] | 2006 | Retrospective | 61 | 2000-2005 | 35 | 27:34 | 61:0 | RALDN | - |
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| Renoult [7] | 2006 | Retrospective | 13 | 2002-2004 | 39.3 | 3:10 | 12:1 | RALDN | ODN |
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| Hubert [6] | 2007 | Prospective | 38 | 2002-2006 | 43 | 15:23 | 37:1 | RALDN | - |
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| Horgan [3] | 2007 | Prospective | 214 | 2000-2006 | 36 | 110:104 | 214:0 | Hand Assisted RALDN | - |
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| Pietrabissa [9] | 2010 | Case report | 1 | 2010 | 48 | 0:1 | 1:0 | RALDN with transvaginal extraction of the kidney | - |
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| Geffner [10] | 2011 | Retrospective | 35 | 2007-2008 | 44.5 | 14:21 | 35:0 | RALDN | LDN |
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| Kaouk [11] | 2012 | Case report | 1 | 2012 | 61 | 0:1 | 1:0 | Transvaginal hybrid natural orifice transluminal robotic donor nephrectomy | - |
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| Galvani [2] | 2012 | Case report | 1 | 2012 | 21 | 0:1 | 1:0 | SIRA | - |
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| Liu [1] | 2012 | Retrospective | 5 | 2005-2011 | 34.8 | n.r. | 0:5 | RALDN | LDN |
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| Cohen: Initial 20 cases [5] | 2015 | Retrospective | 20 | 2009-2010 | 36.1 | n.r. | 20:0 | RALDN | HA-LDN |
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| Cohen: Last 80 cases [5] | 2015 | Retrospective | 80 | 2010-2012 | 37.7 | n.r. | 59:21 | RALDN | HA-LDN |
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| Bhattu [12] | 2015 | Randomized controlled | 15 | 2014-2015 | 46.4 | 2:13 | 6:9 | RALDN | LDN |
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| Serrano [4] | 2016 | Retrospective | 94 | 2004-2014 | 40 | 36:58 | 88:6 | RALDN | ODN, HA-LDN, LDN |
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| Janki [13] | 2016 | Prospective | 59 | 2009-2014 | 53.0 | 23:36 | 59:0 | RALDN | LDN, HARP |
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| Heredia [14] | 2016 | Case report | 1 | 2016 | 34 | 0:1 | 0:1 | Hand assisted RALDN | - |
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| Giacomoni [15] | 2017 | Retrospective | 98 | 2009-2016 | 53 | 29:69 | 88:10 | RALDN | - |
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| Yang [16] | 2017 | Retrospective | 22 | 2011-2016 | 38.2 | 12:10 | 20:2 | RALDN | LDN |
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| Lamattina [17] | 2018 | Prospective | 3 | 2015 | 52 | 0:3 | 3:0 | Single-site robotic surgery | - |
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| Barman [18] | 2018 | Case report | 1 | 2018 | 30 | 1:0 | 1:0 | - | |
HA-LDN: Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, HARP: Hand Assisted Retroperitoneoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, LDN: Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy, ODN: Open Donor Nephrectomy, n.r.: not reported, n.v.a.: normal vascular anatomy, SIRA: Single incision robotic assisted donor nephrectomy, and v.a.: vascular anomalies.