Surgical Milestone: Vall d’Hebron Performs the First Pediatric Surgery in Europe with a Robot that Makes a Single Incision
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His name is Ilyas, he is 12 years old and plays in the 'Alzamora', a federated football club in the popular Nou Barris district of Barcelona. Football is his great passion and his great fear was that he had to give up on it because of his health problems. Ilyas had kidney stones (stones in the kidney) that forced him to go to the doctor often and his health worsened with the years. Earlier this month, an infection caused by multiple calculations…
Now, Vall d’Hebron is back in the European vanguard with a new milestone. The team of Pediatric Urology and Renal Transplantation has performed Europe’s first pediatric surgery with a monoport surgical robot, a 12-year-old ureteronephrectomy that was removed from a kidney and ureter after an infection caused by multiple stones, some of the size of a cherry, left the organ functional. Unlike conventional robotic systems, which use four arms and r…
The team of Pediatric Urology and Renal Transplantation of Vall d'Ebron Hospital has performed the first pediatric surgery in Europe with a surgical robot that makes a single incision, which allows a faster recovery of the patient. The protagonist of this new medical milestone is a 12-year-old boy, who has been removed from a kidney and ureter after an infection caused by the deposit of multiple stones, some of the size of a cherry, left both or…
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