Until she traveled to UC Davis Medical Center after finding out she was a donor match, Whalen hadn't even heard of the minimally invasive surgical procedure that Christoph Troppmann, UC Davis professor of surgery, routinely offers kidney donors. Troppmann can remove a kidney through a single port -- or incision site -- at the patient's navel. He is among only a handful of surgeons across the nation who perform the unique procedure.
"Dr. Troppmann told me about the procedure during one of our preliminary meetings, but it really didn't register for me," said Whalen, an Atlanta-area resident. "When it did register was after surgery, when I joked with the doctor, 'Have I actually been in surgery?'"
Over the past year, Troppmann performed approximately 65 living kidney donations using the specialized technique. He says it potentially has multiple benefits compared to the conventional type of laparoscopic transplant surgery, which was a minimally invasive technique pioneered by his colleague Richard Perez at UC Davis Medical Center in 1997.
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