The best option for patients with end-stage renal disease is kidney transplantation. Increased demand for organs has driven the rise in living donor nephrectomy procedures, in which it is important ...

Natural body orifices such as the vagina and rectum offer concealed access points for potentially scar-free laparoscopic surgery (so-called 'natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery'). Gill and ...

For the first time in Michigan, a diseased kidney has been surgically removed at Henry Ford Hospital using highly sophisticated 3D robotics through a single incision. "We made several improvements in ...

Kidneys from live donors are considered more likely to be successful in treating endstage renal disease than those from cadaver donors. The standard technique for retrieving kidneys from live donors ...

Nagpur: Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, a latest surgical process in which kidney is removed using a scope or camera and special miniaturized surgical instruments, was performed for the first time in ...

DETROIT, Aug. 25 For the first time in Michigan, adiseased kidney has been surgically removed at using highly sophisticated 3Drobotics through a single incision. "We made several improvements in the ...

A city hospital recently used a robot to harvest a kidney from a donor before transplanting it into another person. Robotic intervention means smaller incision and shorter hospital stay for the donor, ...

DALLAS – Aug. 23, 2007 – Surgeons specializing in laparoscopic procedures at UT Southwestern Medical Center have successfully removed a patient’s kidney by performing a unique nephrectomy entirely ...

Surgical removal is the treatment of choice for kidney tumors detected early. For the growing number of kidney tumors detected early—often before they cause symptoms—surgical removal is the ...

Source: Getty Images The widespread use of standard laparoscopic procedures has been constrained by the technical difficulties presented by patients with PKD who have massively enlarged and cystic ...

Severance Hospital has become the first medical institution in the world to achieve 50,000 robotic surgeries. On April 21, ...