Incidence of Cardiovascular Events after Nephrectomy - A Single Centre, Matched Pair Analysis between Donor and Tumour Nephrectomy in a Long Term Follow-Up.

<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> The study aimed to compare the incidence of cardiovascular events (CVEs) after donor nephrectomy (DN) and radical tumor nephrectomy (RN), according to an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), were evaluated over time. <b><i>Materials and Methods:</i></b> Follow-up was collected for DN who underwent surgery from 1998 to 2007 for CVE and renal function. All DN were matched for age to patients treated by RN or adenoma enucleation (control group), who were eligible for DN. eGFR was estimated using the Cockgroft-Gould formula. Patients with preoperative comorbidities were excluded. <b><i>Results:</i…

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