The effect of acupuncture on pain score after open kidney surgery.

Background: The pain after nephrectomy, just as any other surgery, is one of the problems that surgeons confront. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relieving effect of acupuncture on the pain experienced after nephrectomy.

Methods: This was a clinical trial that was performed on 30 patients with mean age of 40.

Pre-operative evaluation of living kidney donors using computerized tomographic angiography (CTA) and conventional angiography: comparison with intraoperative findings.

This study was undertaken to assess the accuracy of computerized tomographic angiography (CTA) for the evaluation of renal vascular anatomy for pre-operative donor assessment in living kidney transplantation and to compare it with conventional angiography. CTA of 70 living donor kidney donors were analyzed by two blinded observers and compared with the intraoperative findings. Similarly, findings of formal angiography of 30 living donor kidney donors were compared with the intraoperative observations.