Author: Dr. Savatta

  • Follow to :Robotic Surgery: Is it truly robotic surgery or will it ever be?

    Source: National Post (Canada) After Sunday’s project with NASA, Dr. Anvari’s team will focus on a new, even more mind-bending phase: “semi-autonomous” robots that are programmed to do surgical procedures on their own, without a physician directly controlling their movements. Apparently there is a physician, Dr. Mehran Anvari, in Canada who according to the National…

  • Bladder Replacements from patients own tissue

    From Reuters An article about Dr. Atala and his pioneering work in making new bladders out of cells grown from the patient. Dr. Atala performed this for children and his main focus is in making organs out of a patient’s own cells that could be used transplantation. I can also envision the day when we…

  • Robotic Surgery: Is it truly robotic surgery or will it ever be?

    I was giving a talk today at New Jersey City University and was asked a good question. Do I think that robotic surgery will change so the robot does the surgery? Currently the da Vinci Surgical system is a master-slave system, where the surgeon is the master and the console is the slave. The da…

  • Robotic Surgery in San Diego

    I am very pleased to announce that the robotic surgery blog will be adding a third robotic surgeon. Dr. Jay Yew of Sharp Rees-Stealy Urology in San Diego California will be the third urologist to blog at the robotic surgery blog. Dr Yew has performed hundreds of da Vinci prostatectomies and is also a pioneer…

  • Outpatient robotic prostatectomy

    With the advantages of robotic surgery of less pain and less blood loss, I have always wondered what will be the end result of the operation in regards to patient recovery and operating room times. Since the total operation time has routinely fallen to the 2 to 2 1/2 hour range I thought an outpatient…

  • Removing the wrong kidney

    Reading Kevin MDs blog, I came across an article about a man from Scotland who had the wrong kidney removed recently as well.

  • Robotic Surgery Growth in New Jersey (Essex County)- Feb 2006 Update

    This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. Original blog entry about robotic surgery growth was in November of 2005 and is updated monthly. For February, I performed 13 robotic operations including 11 prostate removals for cancer, 1 prostate operation for BPH, and 1 reconstructive operation on a kidney.

  • Robotic Simple Prostatectomy- Robotic surgery for BPH

    There are many forms of therapy for BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia). Prostates that are very large respond poorly long term to minimally invasive therapies. Robotic simple prostatectomy is the newest therapy for large prostates. BPH involves growth of the middle part of the prostate. The treatment involves removal of this part called the adenoma.

  • Robotic Surgery Growth in New Jersey (Essex County)- January 2006 Update

    This is a monthly update on the growth of Robotic Surgery in my practice. Original blog entry about robotic surgery growth was in November of 2005 and is updated monthly. For January, I performed 14 robotic operations including 9 prostate removals for cancer, 3 kidney removals for tumor, one ureteral reimplant, and a bladder and…