Trends in kidney transplantation and living donor nephrectomy in Germany: a total population analysis from 2006 to 2021

Trends in kidney transplantation and living donor nephrectomy in Germany: a total population analysis from 2006 to 2021

Purpose To analyze recent trends of surgical access routes, length of hospital stay (LOS), and mortality in kidney transplantation (KT) and living donor nephrectomy (LDN) in Germany. Materials and methods We studied the nationwide German hospital billing database and the German hospital quality repo...

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Veröffentlicht in:World journal of urology 2024-01, Vol.42 (1), p.24-24, Article 24
Hauptverfasser: Zacharis, Aristeidis, Reimold, Philipp, Aksoy, Cem, Jung, Jonas, Martin, Thomas, Eisenmenger, Nicole, Thoduka, Smita George, Groeben, Christer, Huber, Johannes, Flegar, Luka
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Sprache:eng
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Germany
Humans
Kidney Transplantation
Kidney transplants
Laparoscopy
Living Donors
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mortality
Nephrectomy
Nephrology
Oncology
Population studies
Robotics
Tissue and Organ Harvesting
Topic Paper
Trends
Urology
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Zusammenfassung:Purpose To analyze recent trends of surgical access routes, length of hospital stay (LOS), and mortality in kidney transplantation (KT) and living donor nephrectomy (LDN) in Germany. Materials and methods We studied the nationwide German hospital billing database and the German hospital quality reports from 2006 to 2021. Results There were a total of 35.898 KTs. In total, 9044 (25%) were living donor transplantations, while 26.854 (75%) were transplantations after donation after brain death (DBD). The share of open LDN decreased from 82% in 2006 to 22% in 2020 (− 4%/year; p  
ISSN:1433-8726
0724-4983
1433-8726
DOI:10.1007/s00345-023-04737-w