Abstract
Living donor kidney transplantation has much more better long term results in compare to a cadaveric transplantation. That is why a number of this kind of transplantation is incrising.
The kidney harvesting method from the living donor has two basic aspects ? the operation must be very careful for a donor and must ensure high quality of harvested organ. We should use extraperitoneal aproach for the nephrectomy reducing post-surgery complications at the voluntary donor.
We prefere lumbotomy or anterior subcostal extraperitoneal aproach as a possible open surgery methods. We recomand using hand-assisted retroperitoneoscopic nephrectomy from the possible endoscopic methods of donor nephrectomy.