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Psychosocial and Legal Issues with Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy

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Over the last five decades, kidney transplantation has evolved in both surgical and medical management. The kidney donor faces psychosocial stressors during the decision-making process such as during evaluation, donor nephrectomy, post donation follow-ups, and worries about transplant outcome for recipient and own well-being. This article discusses the psychosocial and legal impact of laparoscopic nephrectomy to help the kidney donor and transplant team to understand better the psychological risk profile and legal requirements of the process of live kidney donation.

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Rajapurkar, S. (2017). Psychosocial and Legal Issues with Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy. In: Desai, M., Ganpule, A. (eds) Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2849-6_3

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