This first kidney transplant was performed laparoscopically using a robot in November 2020.
- This operation paves the way for the use of this technique for recipients awaiting a kidney transplant from a deceased donor, and for whom the transplant must be able to be performed at any time of the day or night.
- The patient was operated on November 12, 2020, he suffered no complications afterwards and has been doing well since.
Robot-assisted surgery is developing in France. In the Paris region, a first kidney transplant operation was performed at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital using this technique. This operation involves replacing the kidney of a sick person with that of a healthy donor. The patient was operated on November 12, 2020, he suffered no complications afterwards and has been doing well since.
A promising technique
Dr Christophe Vaessen, Jérôme Parra, Sarah Drouin, and Aurélien Beaugerie from the medico-surgical renal transplantation department, Pr Barrou, and from the urology department, Pr Chartier Kastler, from the Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP hospital carried out this operation thanks to the graft of a deceased donor by brain death. Kidney transplantation was performed laparoscopically assisted by a robot. An operation using the same technique was performed at the Henri Mondor hospital in Créteil in 2002, but the robot was used for vascular anastomoses, that is to say to connect the different blood vessels. For the medical team, this new operation “paves the way for the use of this technique for recipients awaiting a kidney transplant from a deceased donor, and for whom the transplant must be able to be performed at any time of the day or night“.
Transplantation, a hope for patients with end-stage renal failure
Kidney transplantation can treat people with end-stage renal failure. “Of all the treatment options for chronic kidney disease, transplantation is the one that provides the best quality of life and gives the best results in terms of duration and cost.“, specifies the association France Kidney. To be able to benefit from it, you must meet certain criteria, in particular compatibility with the donor, but also the absence of certain pathologies, such as diabetes or cancer. The robotization of this operating mode will facilitate the transplant, in particular for certain types of patients. “This new technique should be aimed primarily at overweight recipients in order to limit surgical complications, particularly parietal ones.“, specifies the AP-HP in a press release. In 2014, 3,232 kidney transplants were performed in France. More than 10,000 people are waiting to receive one.
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