Study of the predictive factors affecting outcomes of patients undergoing transperitoneal laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.

PURPOSE: We aim to study the preoperative and intraoperative factors and compare against specific outcomes in patients undergoing transperitoneal laparoscopic donor nephrectomy and see if we could find what were the predictive factors for these outcomes. METHODS: This is a prospective cohort study done in a single high-volume transplant center. 153 kidney donors were evaluated over a period of 1 year. The preoperative factors such as age, gender, smoking status, obesity, visceral obesity, perinephric fat thickness, number of vessels, anatomic abnormalities, comorbidities, and side of kidney and intraoperative factors such as lay of colon on the kidney, height of splenic or hepatic flexure of colon, loaded or unloaded colon, and sticky mesenteric fat were compared against specific outcomes such as duration of surgery, duration of hospital stay, postoperative paralytic ileus, and postoperative wound complications. RESULTS: Multivariate logistic regression models were used to study the variables of interest against the various outcomes. There were three positive risk factors for increased hospital stay, which were perinephric fat thickness and height of splenic or hepatic flexure of colon and smoking history. There was one positive risk factor for postoperative paralytic ileus which is lay of colon with relation to kidney and there was one positive risk factor for postoperative wound complication which was visceral fat area. CONCLUSION: The predictive factors for adverse postoperative outcomes after transperitoneal laparoscopic donor nephrectomy were perinephric fat thickness, height of splenic or hepatic flexure, smoking status, lay or redundancy of colon with relation to kidney and visceral fat area.

Intra-abdominal vas deferens cyst.

We report a case of a 62-year-old man with complaints of lower abdominal pain who, on radiological investigations, was found to have an approximately 6-cm cystic lesion in the left iliac fossa region abutting the posterolateral wall of the urinary bladder. However, its origin could not be confirmed. On laparoscopy, the cyst was found to be arising from the vas deferens and was excised. Histopathology confirmed it to be arising from the vas deferens.