Total robot-assisted recipient's surgery in living donor liver transplantation: First step towards the future

Kwang-Woong Lee; YoungRok Choi; Sola Lee; Su Young Hong; Sanggyun Suh; Eui Soo Han; Suk Kyun Hong; Seong Mi Yang; Nam-Joon Yi; Kyung-Suk Suh

doi:10.1002/jhbp.1327

Total robot-assisted recipient's surgery in living donor liver transplantation: First step towards the future

J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci. 2023 Oct;30(10):1198-1200. doi: 10.1002/jhbp.1327. Epub 2023 Mar 23.

Authors

Kwang-Woong Lee^{1

2}, YoungRok Choi^{1

2}, Sola Lee^{1

2}, Su Young Hong^{1

2}, Sanggyun Suh^{1

2}, Eui Soo Han^{1

2}, Suk Kyun Hong^{1

2}, Seong Mi Yang^{2

3}, Nam-Joon Yi^{1

2}, Kyung-Suk Suh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
² Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

PMID: 36866566
DOI: 10.1002/jhbp.1327

Abstract

Lee and colleagues describe a groundbreaking total robot-assisted explant hepatectomy followed by robotic engraftment for a patient requiring a living donor liver transplant. This report represents a crucial step towards implementing robot-assisted liver transplantation, a cutting-edge surgical technique that could change the surgical trend in recipient surgery for liver transplantation.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Hepatectomy / methods
Humans
Liver Transplantation* / methods
Living Donors
Robotic Surgical Procedures* / methods
Robotics*