Alternative techniques to reduce warm ischemia time in laparoscopic partial nephrectomy

Purpose:Demonstrate two alternatives that permit a warm ischemia time reduction during laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.Materials and Methods:In this video, two cases of intermediate complexity renal tumors according to the RENAL nephrometry renal scoring system illustrating the techniques and our preliminary experience: a 65 year old man with a 4 cm right, posterior renal tumor. This patient underwent an early unclamping and parenchymal suturing using a greek bar continuous suture with hem-o-lock clips attached to the respective extremities of the suture; The second patient is a 49 year old m...