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World's First Hi-tech Pancreas Transplant by Italian Doctors
The robotically-assisted operation "creates new prospects for the treatment of diabetics," because its "mini-invasive" nature strongly reduces post-operation complications, the team at the university hospital in Pisa said.
The robotic technique allows surgeons to carry out the transplant through three small holes and a seven-centimetre (three-inch) incision, the hospital said.
"This will put an end to the decades-old dilemma of whether it's possible to do pancreatic transplants because the operation is so invasive when done in the traditional way," Ugo Boggi, who heads the team, said at a press conference.
The transplant was carried out on September 27 on a 43-year-old mother of two who had suffered from type one diabetes since she was 24 years old and had already had a kidney transplant.
The patient suffered no complications from the three-hour operation and left the hospital on October 30.
Pancreatic transplants have been very invasive until now because of the organ's vascular structure and the fragility of diabetic patients, who in 50 percent of cases develop post-operative problems, a hospital statement said.
The medical team carried out the operation with the assistance of the "Da Vinci SHDI robot" -- a large machine with several arms -- designed in the multidisciplinary Robotic Surgery centre in Pisa.
The world-renowned centre also carried out the first robotically-assisted kidney transplant in Europe in July.
Source-AFP
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