AUTHOR=Gandhi Nisarg V. , Murad Dina N. , Hebert Sean A. , Morgan Monica , Nguyen Duc T. , Graviss Edward A. , Ibrahim Hassan N. TITLE=Incidence and correlates of testicular pain after kidney donation JOURNAL=Frontiers in Urology VOLUME=2 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/urology/articles/10.3389/fruro.2022.986255 DOI=10.3389/fruro.2022.986255 ISSN=2673-9828 ABSTRACT=

Some kidney donors experience testicular pain after donation. We studied the presence of testicular pain in male donors from The Renal and Lung Donor Evaluation (RELIVE) Study which investigated short- and long-term outcomes of 8922 kidney donors. Of the 2551 male donors with available testicular status data included in the analysis, 54 (2.12%) developed testicular pain 19 days (IQR 7, 40) after donation: 34 had testicular pain only, 6 had epididymitis, and 14 had both. Donors developing pain were 4 years older and pain occurred more often in those undergoing laparoscopic nephrectomy; 3.6% vs. 1.1% for open nephrectomy. Non-Hispanic White ethnicity and undergoing laparoscopic nephrectomy were associated with increased risk of testicular pain; RR 5.56 (95% CI 1.35, 22.84), p=0.02, RR 3.11 (95% CI 1.71, 5.65), p<0.001, respectively. Laterality of nephrectomy, however, was not associated with increased risk of testicular pain. Testicular pain is not infrequent and contrary to previous reports, left nephrectomy was not associated with a higher incidence of testicular pain. Donors should be routinely asked about this potentially bothersome complication.