Changes in Muscle Quality and Body Composition 1 Year After Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy in Living Kidney Donors.

CONCLUSIONS: Although muscle quality deteriorates after nephrectomy, maintaining muscle mass is important to retaining muscle quality.
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Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - August 13, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Fukuhara H, Nawano T, Kanda A, Tomosugi T, Okada M, Futamura K, Hiramitsu T, Goto N, Narumi S, Watarai Y Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research