Long-term functional outcome of renal units after laparoscopic nephron-sparing surgery under cold ischemia.

Background And Purpose: Renal-artery occlusion is used to control bleeding during laparoscopic nephronsparing surgery, but there are worries about ischemic damage. We compared the functional outcomes of kidneys treated under warm and cold ischemia.

Patients And Methods: Twelve patients treated with warm ischemia and 14 treated with cold ischemia had renal function investigation 3 to 6 months postoperatively.

Role of laparoscopy in management of renal stones: single-center experience and review of literature.

Background And Purpose: Laparoscopy can be an alternative modality in the management of renal stones. We present our experience with laparoscopic renal stone surgery.

Patients And Methods: Eighteen patients (4 males, 14 females) with mean age of 51 years (range 18-86 years) underwent 19 laparoscopic procedures.

Laparoscopic nephron sparing surgery: evolution in a decade.

Objective: To present our experience with laparoscopic nephron sparing surgery (NSS) over a decade.

Methods: Seventy-eight patients underwent NSS since 1994. Two techniques were used-partial nephrectomy without ischemia (group 1) in 29 patients, and with ischemia (group 2) which was in cold or warm ischemia in 24 and 25 patients respectively.