...Pengfei Shao; Pu Li; Xiaobing Ju; Chao Qin; Changjun Yin Objective: To describe the feasibility of retroperitoneal laparoscopic reimplantation of the left renal vein (LRV) for nutcracker syndrome (NCS). Patients and Methods: Two patients with NCS underwent the surgery. Both patients complained...

...Tetsuro Kato; Kazunari Sato; Hideaki Kakinuma; Tadaaki Abe; Masaaki Shindo Although the left kidney has a number of venous collaterals, the collateral venous drainage is not always sufficient to allow permanent ligation of the venous trunk. Interruption and reanastomosis of the left renal vein were...

...Georg Philipp Schmidt; Hans Loeweneck In 231 adults the frequency and the pattern of the retroaortic left renal vein were studied. We observed a retroaortic left renal vein in 9,09% (‘renal collar’ in 5.62%, single retroaortic left renal vein in 3.46%. According to our results and to the findings...

.... By dissecting the right internal iliac vein and isolating the right external iliac vein, the surgical procedure of the recipient side was so devised as to avoid any complications. In one patient, the surgical procedure of the donor side was modified to extend the donor left renal vein by anastomosis of part...