MRI measurement of the effects of moderate and deep neuromuscular blockade on the abdominal working space during laparoscopic surgery, a clinical study.

Background: Conflicting data exist regarding the effects of deep neuromuscular blockade (NMB) on abdominal dimensions during laparoscopic procedures. We performed a clinical study to establish the influence of moderate and deep neuromuscular blockade (NMB) on the abdominal working space, measured by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy with standard pressure (12 mmHg) pneumoperitoneum under sevoflurane anaesthesia.

Methods: Ten patients were intraoperatively scanned three times in the lateral decubitus position, with pneumoperitoneum maintained by a mobile insufflator.

Deep neuromuscular block reduces the incidence of intra-operative complications during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: a pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Study Objective: To assess whether different intensities of intra-abdominal pressure and deep neuromuscular blockade influence the risk of intra-operative surgical complications during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.

Design: A pooled analysis of ten previously performed prospective randomized controlled trials.

Setting: Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy performed in four academic hospitals in the Netherlands: Radboudumc, Leiden UMC, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, and Amsterdam UMC.

Early postoperative pain after laparoscopic donor nephrectomy predicts 30-day postoperative infectious complications: a pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Our research group recently published a positive association between early postoperative pain and 30-day postoperative complications in a broad surgical population. To investigate whether heterogeneity of the population and surgical procedures influenced these results, we explored this association in a homogenous surgical population. A secondary analysis of the LEOPARD-2 (clinicaltrials.

An Update on Early Urological Complications in Kidney Transplantation: A National Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to provide an update on the occurrence of early urological complications in living-donor and deceased-donor kidney transplantation (KTX). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on all kidney transplant recipients in the Netherlands between January 2005 and December 2015 were retrieved from the prospectively collected Dutch National Organ Transplant Registry Database (NOTR). We assessed the incidence of major urological complications (MUCs) within 3 months after KTX, defined as urinary leakage and ureteral obstruction.

Double J stent is superior to externally draining ureteric stent in enhancing recovery after kidney transplantation - A prospective cohort study.

Background: Routine intraoperative ureteric stenting lowers the rate of urological complications after kidney transplantation. However, there is no consensus about the optimal stent design and duration. The aim of this prospective cohort study was to compare the influence of double J (JJ) stents and externally draining percutaneous (PC) stents on the early quality of recovery after living donor kidney transplantation.