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From June 2009 to December 2011, a prospective cohort of 39 obese patients with ESRD underwent robotic kidney transplantation at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System. Twenty eight of these patients completed a follow-up period of at least 6 months after transplant. We compared the posttransplant outcomes from these 28 patients with those of a retrospective cohort control group of 28 obese patients undergoing standard open kidney transplantation prior to June 2009 at our institution, also with at least 6 months of follow-up. They were frequency matched to the robotic surgery group on the following variables, listed in order of priority: BMI (30 kg/m2 �� BMI http://www.selleck.cn/products/wnt-c59-c59.html (yes/no); cross-match positivity (yes/no); gender (male/female); age; living/deceased donation; underlying disease and pretransplant dialysis (yes/no). Patient characteristics are described in Table 1. The pretransplant workup for all patients regardless of surgical procedure followed Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services guidelines. Historically, our institution had never excluded any patient from transplantation based on body weight if the pretransplant workup did http://www.selleckchem.com/products/cb-839.html not show any formal contraindications. However, the average BMI of the control group was significantly lower than the robotic group, since we were not able to find equally obese patients in the control group. The immunological status of the recipient was not used to select patients. Kidney transplantation was offered to presensitized patients, patients undergoing desensitization in the presence of a positive cross-match or ABO incompatibility to their prospective living donors, as well as patients with a history of previous kidney transplantation. The institutional review board at the University of Illinois at Chicago approved this chart review (IRB Protocol 2011-1104). Robotic kidney transplants were performed as previously described [16]. Hand-assisted http://www.selleckchem.com/products/BI6727-Volasertib.html clamping of the iliac artery and vein during the anastomosis, at least during the early case experiences, provided additional safety in the case of any vascular accident. However, with increasing experience, robotic vascular clamps for clamping the external iliac vessels were used. All patients were started intraoperatively on intravenous heparin infusion at a standard rate of 300 units/h and maintained on heparin until discharge. Living donations were performed robotically as previously described [17].