Robot-assisted kidney transplantation is a safe alternative approach for morbidly obese patients with end-stage renal disease.

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Authors

• Seung Duk Lee
  Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center, 111 Jungbalsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 410-769, Republic of Korea.
• Badi Rawashdeh
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Emily K E McCracken
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Leigh A Cantrell
  Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Bassel Kharwat
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Alp Demirag
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Avinash Agarwal
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Kenneth L Brayman
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Shawn J Pelletier
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Nicolas Goldaracena
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Emily Fox
  Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• José Oberholzer

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