ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses perioperative outcomes, including donor morbidity after ODN and LLDN from these large patient series.
OPEN DONOR NEPHRECTOMY
ODN has been viewed as the traditional gold standard for retrieving kidneys from living donors, with which more recent techniques have been compared. Several large patient series
have demonstrated the low donor risk associated with ODN. Morbidity rates for these ODN compared with the LLDN series are presented in Table 2.
