Table 1

List of inclusion and exclusion criteria for the selection of comparative groups

Inclusion criteriaExclusion criteria
Population

  • Healthy subjects (≥18 years) who underwent unilateral simple nephrectomy as selected candidates that met standard criteria for kidney donation.

  • Healthy participants that underwent unilateral simple nephrectomy other than for kidney donation.

  • Children and adolescents with solitary kidney after unilateral nephrectomy.

Intervention

  • Open or laparoscopic unilateral simple nephrectomy.

 
Comparator

  • Healthy adult subjects (≥18 years) with measurements of validated indices of arterial stiffness who participated as healthy comparative controls in kidney donor studies.

  • Healthy subjects with measurements of carotid-femoral PWV included in reference studies.

  • Kidney recipients

Outcome

  • Functional indices of arterial stiffness: carotid-femoral PWV, carotid-radial PWV, brachial-ankle PWV, femoral-tibial PWV, pulse wave analysis (augmentation index and central pulse pressure), ankle-brachial index, aortic distensibility.

  • Structural indices of arterial stiffness: carotid artery intima-media thickness and arterial calcification scores.

  • None

Study design

  • Prospective non-randomised (cohort, case–control, case series and before-and-after studies) and retrospective studies if 10 or more participants have been included in the primary analysis.

  • Articles reported in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.

  • Paediatric and non-human studies

  • Narrative reviews

  • In vitro or mathematical modelling reports.

  • Duplicates

  • Substudies of previously published trials.

  • Abstracts, conference proceedings.

  • PWW, pulse wave velocity.