1. Volume 65, Issue 5, Pages 991-1000 (May 2014)
Robotic Kidney Transplantation with Regional Hypothermia: A Step-by-step Description of the Vattikuti Urology Institute–Medanta Technique (IDEAL Phase 2a) 
Mani Menon, Akshay Sood, Mahendra Bhandari, Vijay Kher, Prasun Ghosh, Ronney Abaza, Wooju Jeong, Khurshid R. Ghani, Ramesh K. Kumar, Pranjal Modi, Rajesh Ahlawat 
European Urology 
Volume 65, Issue 5, Pages (May 2014)
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2. Fig. 1
(a) GelSeal cap with a 12-mm camera-port (C) and a 10-mm assistant port, for the 5-mm suction (A). (b) Diagrammatic illustration of port placement for robotic kidney transplantation with regional hypothermia.
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3. Fig. 2
(a) Skeletonized iliac vessel bed. (b) Bladder preparation: detrusor flaps created for subsequent ureteroneocystostomy (modified Lich-Gregoir technique).
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4. Fig. 3
(a) Multiple modified Toomey syringes (nozzles cut off) being readied for rapid delivery of ice slush. (b) Graft kidney wrapped in a gauze jacket filled with ice slush. (c) Pelvic bed lined with ice slush to achieve pelvic-bed cooling before introduction of the graft kidney. (d) Additional ice slush delivered onto the graft kidney immediately after its introduction, to achieve uniform cooling.
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5. Fig. 4
(a) External iliac vein clamped with a robotic bulldog clamp. (b) End-to-side venous anastomosis.
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6. Fig. 5
(a) Linear arteriotomy converted to circular arteriotomy using a 3.6-mm aortic punch. (b) End-to-side arterial anastomosis.
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7. Fig. 6
(a) Ureteroneocystostomy. (b) Inferior epigastric artery being flushed with heparinized saline using a 5F ureteric catheter. (c) Lower-pole accessory artery anastomosis to the inferior epigastric artery using 6-0 prolene sutures.
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8. Fig. 7
Technical modifications done during phases 1 and 2a of procedure development plotted against case timeline.
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9. Fig. 8
(a) Box plots of console, warm ischemia, rewarming, iliac vessel bed preparation, and arterial, venous, and ureterovesical anastomoses times (the upper and the lower bars represent the 75th and the 25th percentiles, respectively). (b) Fall in serum creatinine level in patients undergoing robotic kidney transplantation with regional hypothermia. Bars represent standard error of means. POD=postoperative day.
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