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Robotic Donor Nephrectomy and Robotic Kidney Transplant

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Kidney transplant is the best treatment for patients with chronic renal failure. Robotics has expanded the ability to complete complex procedures such as kidney transplantation in minimally invasive fashion. This new minimal invasive approach offers the opportunity to perform kidney transplantation. Base on our experience, we can state that robotic-assisted kidney transplantation is a safe and effective operation. By minimizing surgical trauma, surgical complications are reduced and patient and graft survival improved.

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Acknowledgments

To Dr. Enrico Benedetti and Dr. Pier Giulianotti for their expertise and great efforts in supervising and leading us to accomplish this program. Without your contribution, it would not have been possible.

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  1. Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, 840 South Wood Street, CSB Rm 502, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Ivo G. Tzvetanov M.D., Lorena Bejarano-Pineda M.D. & José Oberholzer M.D.

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Correspondence to José Oberholzer M.D. .

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Tzvetanov, I.G., Bejarano-Pineda, L., Oberholzer, J. (2014). Robotic Donor Nephrectomy and Robotic Kidney Transplant. In: Kim, K. (eds) Robotics in General Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8739-5_27

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