Tag: surgery

  • Robotic failure during surgery

    Robot failure during radical prostatectomies is ‘extremely rare’ – Failure rates will continue to shrink as technology advances – UrologyTimes The study team recorded critical failures in 20 cases (0.3%) leading to the cancellation of 10 procedures and conversion to laparoscopic in one case and to open procedure in nine cases. Recoverable failures were more…

  • Robotic surgery coming to Edmonton

    edmontonsun.com – Edmonton News – $10M fundraiser in Edmonton aims to help combat prostate cancer An Edmonton hospital is tackling prostate cancer with a $10-million fundraiser to open a prostate health clinic, purchase a robotic surgery system and increase its research fund. Fundraising will likely bring another robotic system to Canda.

  • Robotic Kidney Surgery reaches Australia

    Man’s kidney removed by robot | The Daily Telegraph IT sounds like science fiction – but a NSW man has become the first person in the southern hemisphere to have a kidney removed by a robot.

  • Robotic surgery summary- September 2007

    In September I performed 19 operations including 13 dvPs. One simple prostatectomy was combined with a left inguinal hernia repair. This was the first time I had performed this combination, although I have performed close to 50 hernia repairs at the time of dvP. The new thing to report is an improvement in continence that…

  • Robotic surgery summary- July/August 2007

    For the summer months I had the pleasure of inviting my new associate, Dr. Brent Yanke, into our practice. We spent July together and he is now on his own performing most of his robotic surgery. He was well trained at Thomas Jefferson and had participated in over 100 robotic operations. In July and August…

  • Robotic surgery summary- May/June 2007

    I have been neglectful during the summer with keeping up on my blog. I will hope to catch up and keep my monthly postings of how things are going in my practice. In May and June I performed 32 dvPs, a nephrectomy, a simple prostatectomy, and a partial nephrectomy. The nephrectomy was the live telecast…

  • Swiss study shows survival advantage for surgery over radiation therapy for prostate cancer

    Prostate Cancer: Surgery Best Option? Men who choose surgery for early prostate cancer are more likely to be alive 10 years later than men who opt for other treatments, a Swiss study shows. “If you look not only at this study but at the studies we brought out in the last three or four years,…

  • Robotic radical cystectectomy for bladder cancer

    UroToday – Robotic vs Open Radical Cystectomy: Prospective Comparison of Perioperative Outcomes and Pathological Measures of Early Oncological Efficacy – Abstract Robotic-assisted RC appears to offer some operative and perioperative benefits compared with the open approach without compromising pathological measures of early oncological efficacy, such as lymph node yield and margin status. Larger, randomized studies…

  • Experience matters for prostate cancer surgery

    Study tracks ‘learning curve’ in prostate surgery – CNN.com In this study, experience was measured not by age or years as a surgeon but by the number of times doctors performed this operation. “Advice for patients is to try to seek out experienced surgeons, and they’re likely to be ones who specialize in the procedure,”…