SAMRC Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Centre, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice, 5700, South Africa. junuofin@gmail.com.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice, 5700, South Africa. junuofin@gmail.com.
Department of Environmental, Earth and Water Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Private bag X680, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa. junuofin@gmail.com.
The study aims to investigate perioperative indices and immediate outcomes of laparoscopic and robotic surgical interventions in colorectal cancer patients. The study included 163 patients [90 (55.2%)...
The role and risks of pre-operative endoscopic procedures, such as endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration (EUS/FNA), in patients un...
The aim of the study was to study robotic cervical radical trachelectomy, aimed at standardizing and optimizing surgical procedures, thereby facilitating the learning process. All surgical procedures ...
Nerve-sparing (NS) techniques could potentially increase positive surgical margins after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). Nevertheless, the available studies have revealed ambiguous result...
We studied RARPs performed by one surgeon from 2010 to 2018. Surgical margins were evaluated by the laterality and levels of NS techniques in site-specific prostate lobes. The multivariable analysis e...
Overall, 419 RARPs involving 838 prostate lobes were analyzed. Notably, 181 patients (43.4%) had pT2-stage, and 236 (56.6%) had pT3-stage cancer. The PSM rates for patients who underwent unilateral, b...
Partial NS procedures have a potential risk of increasing the positive surgical margins rate than complete and non NS procedures do. Therefore, correct case selection is required before performing par...
The use of the robot in general surgery has exploded in the last decade. The Veterans Health Administration presents a unique opportunity to study differences between surgical approaches due to the ab...
A retrospective observational study using the Veterans Affair Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. Operative time, length of stay, and complications were compared for cholecystectomy (robot-...
More than 80,000 cases were analyzed (21,652 cholecystectomy, 9214 ventral hernia repairs, and 51,324 inguinal hernia repairs). Median operative time was longer for all robot-assisted approaches as co...
While the robotic platform was associated with longer operative time, these findings must be interpreted in the context of a learning curve and indications for use (i.e., use of the robot for technica...
It is unclear how to best establish successful robotic training programs or if subspecialty robotic program principles can be adapted for general surgery practice. The objective of this study is to un...
This multi-institutional qualitative analysis involved semi-structured interviews with high-volume robotic educators from academic general surgery (AGS), community general surgery (CGS), urology (URO)...
Thirty-four interviews were completed: AGS (n = 9), CGS (n = 8), URO (n = 9), and GYN (n = 8) resulting in 40 codes and four themes. Theme 1: intangibles of culture, resident engagement, and faculty a...
Robotic surgical experts emphasize the importance of universal training paradigms, such as a strong educational culture that balances autonomy and patient safety, collaboration between disciplines, an...
We sought to describe the development of the robotic urology program at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) and the feasibility of transitioning from the da Vinci to Versius robotic ...
To date, robotic surgery in urology is well established all over the world. The newest platform on the market is the HUGO™ RAS system, developed by Medtronic. In this paper we provide a brief descript...
After an official training, seven consecutive patients affected by localized prostate cancer underwent RARP with HUGO...
Our operating room setup has shown to be safe, effective, and easy replicable. During our series, operative times appeared to be easy reproducible and comparable to those obtained with daVinci system....
Our surgical approach and system configuration for performing RARP with the new HUGO™ RAS system appears to be safe, efficient and easy reproducible....
Despite increasing implementation of robotic surgery and minimally invasive techniques within adult surgical oncology and pediatric general surgery, the utilization of robotic-assisted resections for ...
Our objective was to present the perioperative and oncological results of robot-assisted surgery performed in our department. In our publication, we retrospectively reviewed the data of 658 robot-assi...
