Artery-Only Occlusion May Provide Superior Renal Preservation During Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy

UroToday.com - Contrary to the animal data provided by these same investigators (which showed no benefit to artery-only vs. complete hilar clamping), their clinical study of 25 artery-only patients matched to a cohort of 53 patients who underwent complete hilar clamping showed a statistically significant acute postoperative day one drop in creatinine clearance in the hilar clamped group, despite similar lengths of warm ischemia time.

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Filed under: Urology on November 25th, 2008