Clinical Study

Morbidity of 200 Consecutive Cases of Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomies: A Single-Center Experience

Table 3

Recipient results.

RecipientsGroup 1 ( 𝑛 = 4 1 ) median (range)Group 2 ( 𝑛 = 1 5 9 ) median (range) 𝑃 value

EBL (mL)100 (25–300)75 (25–1000)0.06**
LOS (days)5 (4–18)4 (3–32)0.008**
Serum creatinine at discharge (mg/dL)1.1 (0.6–5.1)1.3 (0.4–8.6)0.07**
Serum creatinine at 6 months (mg/dL)1.3 (0.8–2.2)1.3 (0.4–3.3)0.87**

**Refers to 𝑃 values based upon the Mann-Whitney test, as the data did not fit into normal distributions following the use of transformations.