A hospital in Spain has efficiently carried out the primary totally robotic lung transplant via a small incision.
Albert Jauregui, the pinnacle of the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Service of Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, shared the main points of the pioneering approach on Monday in a press briefing.
Underlining that lung transplants are “aggressive” surgical procedures as a result of they require an incision to be made in a big a part of the chest and breaking of the ribs to be able to attain the organs, he mentioned with the brand new approach they have been in a position to exchange the organ from “a small incision below the sternum, without breaking the ribs.”
Jauregui mentioned that the operation was carried out on the finish of February and lasted about 5 hours.
He added {that a} related surgical procedure has to this point solely been carried out at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, however robotic surgical procedure has been solely partially used there.
For his half, the affected person, Xavier, 65, mentioned that he’s “delighted” with the end result, as a result of in the course of the postoperative interval “the pain level has been zero.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
