The common surgical term for the procedure where a kidney is retrieved from a living donor for transplantation is donor nephrectomy. A nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney. When this procedure is performed on a donor, meaning an individual who is voluntarily giving one of their kidneys, for the express purpose of providing a healthy organ for transplantation into a recipient, it is specifically termed a donor nephrectomy. The goal of this surgery ....
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