Observational Study
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Transplant. Dec 18, 2022; 12(12): 405-414
Published online Dec 18, 2022. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v12.i12.405
Current practice of live donor nephrectomy in Turkey
Bakytbek Mankiev, Sanem Guler Cimen, Ismail Oskay Kaya, Sertac Cimen, Asir Eraslan
Bakytbek Mankiev, Sanem Guler Cimen, Department of General Surgery, Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Ankara 65100, Turkey
Ismail Oskay Kaya, Departments of Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training and Research Hospital, Ankara 65100, Turkey
Sertac Cimen, Department of Urology, Saglık Bilimleri Universitesi, Ankara 65100, Turkey
Asir Eraslan, Department of Urology, Somalia Turkish Training and Research Hospital, Mogadishu 23451, Somalia
Author contributions: Mankiev B and Cimen SG designed the research; Cimen S and Kaya IO performed the research; Eraslan A collected data; Cimen S analyzed data; Cimen SG wrote the paper.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethical committee of Diskapi Research and Training Hospital Research Ethics Board on April 9, 2018.
Informed consent statement: The participants were informed about the questionnaire via e-mail, and after an online consent process the Survey Monkey questionnaire link was shared.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Dataset is private.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Sanem Guler Cimen, Doctor, FEBS, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Altindag, Ankara 65100, Turkey. sanem.cimen@sbu.edu.tr
Received: August 11, 2022
Peer-review started: August 11, 2022
First decision: September 5, 2022
Revised: October 31, 2022
Accepted: December 6, 2022
Article in press: December 6, 2022
Published online: December 18, 2022
Processing time: 127 Days and 4.1 Hours
Core Tip

Core Tip: This study showed that centers using minimally invasive techniques had a relatively higher number of live donor kidney transplants in 2019. It also demonstrated that Turkish transplant teams performed live donor nephrectomy surgeries successfully through various techniques by considering that donor safety and center experience were the essential determinants when selecting the optimal approach for each donor.