New study aims to help kidney donors breathe easier after surgery
NCT ID NCT06837909
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at two ways to control pain after laparoscopic kidney donation surgery: a nerve block injected into the belly muscles before surgery, or numbing medicine injected into the surgical cuts at the end. Pain can make people take shallow breaths, which may harm lung function. The goal is to see which method better preserves breathing ability and reduces pain. About 80 adult kidney donors will take part, and neither they nor the study team will know which treatment they received.
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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About 80 people
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Jan 2026
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2027
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Other sponsor
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18 years and older
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who are scheduled to undergo elective LLDN. * Age above 18 years. * Body Mass Index (BMI) above 20 and below 40 kg m-2. * Eligible to sign informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Open or hand-assisted surgery. * Known cardiac or pulmonary disease. * Preoperative chronic pain (i.e., fibromyalgia, chronic neuropathic pain). * Contraindication for regional analgesia (i.e., known allergy to LA, skin lesions in the injection site). * Known allergy to one or more of the components of multimodal analgesia (i.e., opioids, paracetamol, tramadol, dipyrone). * Preexisting severe pulmonary disease (i.e., an obstructive lung disease with a forced expiratory volume in the first second \[FEV1\] below 49%, restrictive lung disease with a forced vital capacity \[FVC\] below 49%, pulmonary hypertension). Discontinuing criteria: Participants will be excluded from the analysis if they: * Experience intraoperative bleeding requiring transfusion of more than three units of blood products. * Experience hemodynamic instability requiring postoperative vasopressor or inotropic support. * Require conversion to open surgery. * Require mechanical ventilation after being transferred from the OR to the PACU.
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Locations
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Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital
RECRUITINGPetah Tikva, Israel
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