Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy With the Use of 3-mm Instruments and Laparoscope: Initial Experience at a Tertiary Center

Laparoscopy has become the standard of care for kidney recovery during live donor nephrectomy (LDN) because of the well-documented better outcomes of minimally invasive surgery compared with the open approach [1], [2], [3] and [4]. Especially in the donor population, the cosmetic results are of great importance; therefore, an effort to reduce the incision size should be attempted while maintaining the safe general principles of surgery. We present our initial experience with the use of 3-mm instruments for laparoscopic LDN.