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In this two-minute video, Dr. Rolf Barth, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and transplant surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center, discusses single-incision laparoscopic kidney removal for potential kidney donors. UMMC is the first hospital in Maryland and only the third hospital in the U.S. to offer this procedure, which has now become the standard approach used by surgeons at the Medical Center for kidney donors. Here, Dr. Barth talks about the advantages of this unique procedure and what patients can expect in the operating room.