Techniques of surgical hemostasis and sealing after laparoscopic partial nephrectomy

Background. The kidney cancer treatment remains cornerstone problem in our country for healthcare. Survival results of partial nephrectomy as a radical nephrectomy are similar in groups of patients with the same morphological features and was confirmed by previously results: “indications for nephron-sparing treatment of kidney cancer is determined with the degree of resectability, assessed subjectively by surgeon and his experience, ambitions and technical capabilities. It does not depend on oncological prognostic factors”. This thesis is actual due to oncological preoperative factors and limited only by tumor size. Therefore, development of technical capabilities, techniques and skills expand our capabilities in organ-preserving treatment.

Aim. To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of bipolar coagulation with fibrin glue in comparison with the standard technique of surgical suture to the area of non-ischemic partial nephrectomy.

Materials and methods. This is prospective trial which had included the results of treatment of 121 patients who received partial-nephrectomy for localized kidney cancer from 2015 to 2017 at the N.N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology. Two variants of hemostasis were used in the work: standard surgical (surgical suture) and electrohemostasis with an additional hemostatic component (fibrin glue). Among the selected patients, there were no patients with a single kidney and a pronounced violation of the excretory function of the organ.

Results. The groups were comparable in terms of tumor size (р = 0.09), morphometric characteristics according to the R.E.N.A.L. scale (p = 0.07), no differences were found in clinical and morphological staging. The use of electrohemostasis with a hemostatic glue component did not significantly affect at the excretory function of the kidney, assessed on the 3rd and 10th days after laparoscopic non-ischemic resection, which indirectly confirms the functional safety of the tested technique (р >0.05). The groups did not differ significantly in terms of the blood loss, hemotransfusions (р = 0.067), and none of delayed bleeding was found which indicates the reliability of electrohemostasis using an adhesive composition.

Conclusion. We proposed a patent “Method of surgical hemostasis in laparoscopic partial nephrectomy” RU2654402C1 by combining bipolar coagulation in the 90 W-effect 7–8 mode and hemostatic fibrin glue (SURGIFLO, PERCLOT). Used adhesive compositions complement the achieved electrohemostasis, and also provide sealing of the area of the resected kidney tissue.

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