Abstract

Objective: To evaluate our complications in renal and adrenal transperitoneal laparoscopic surgeries with Clavien-Dindo classification.

Material and methods: Two hundred and eight patients to whom renal and adrenal laparoscopic surgeries were performed between January 2008 and June 2015 were included the study. One hundred and twenty one (58.2%) patients were female and 87 (41.8%) of them were male. Laparoscopic procedures were performed as radical nephrectomy (n=49; 23.6%), simple nephrectomy (n=56; 26.9%), and partial nephrectomy (n=7; 3.4%),  renal cyst decortication (n=27; 13%), pyelopasty (n=14; 6.7%) and adrenalectomy (n=55; 26.4%). Complications were classified according to Clavien-Dindo classification.

Results: The mean age of the patients was 48.01±14.9 years. The mean duration of hospital stay was 3.5±1.9 days. According to European Scoring System for Laparoscopic Operations the procedures were graded based on procedural difficulty  as simple (n=27; 12.9%), difficult (n=172; 82.8%), and highly difficult (n=9; 4.3%). Complications were observed in 13 (6.3%) interventions. One of these occurred during very hard and 14 during difficult  procedures. According to Clavien-Dindo Classification; Grades 1, 2, and 3 A complications developed in 3 (1.4%), 9 (4.3%), and 1(0.5%) patient, respectively. 

Conclusion: Laparoscopic surgery is an efficient procedure in well-chosen patients for renal and adrenal diseases with low complication rates.