Retromuscular sublay (RMS) technique for repair of ventral hernias has gained popularity due to lower risk of recurrence and wound complications. Robotic approaches to RMS have been shown to decrease ...
A retrospective review of elective robotic and open RMS repairs in the ACHQC database was performed. Patients deemed to be high-risk for wound complications were included: adult patients with BMI grea...
A total of 917 patients met inclusion criteria. After propensity score matching, 211 patients matched for each approach. There was no difference in overall SSO (18% for Open vs 23% for Robotic, p = 0....
In this analysis, a robotic approach was associated with decreased rates of SSI and SSOPI in obese patients who were either current smokers or diabetics. In effort to reduce wound morbidity and the as...
This paper formulates an innovative model-free self-organizing weight adaptation that strengthens the robustness of a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) for inverted pendulum-like mechatronic systems ag...
More recently, soft actuators have evoked great interest in the next generation of soft robots. Despite significant progress, the majority of current soft actuators suffer from the lack of real-time s...
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an adenocarcinoma of the renal cortex. Radical nephrectomy remains the standard of care for managing massive renal tumours. Robotic-assisted radical nephrectomy is an inc...
To investigate preoperative patient factors that may predict the occurrence of perioperative complications following robot-assisted radical cystectomy at a single center in Japan....
From 2013 to 2022, 103 patients underwent RARC at our institution. Complications within 90 days after surgery were assessed using the Clavien-Dindo classification. Preoperative characteristics and sur...
Overall, 27% of patients (27/103) experienced grade 3 or higher complications. The cohort that developed complications ≥grade 3 exhibited significantly higher Charlson comorbidity index (p = 0.046) an...
Our results suggest that the Charlson comorbidity index and preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate may be predictors of perioperative complications. It is important to evaluate the patient'...
Minimally invasive liver resections (MILR) offer potential benefits such as reduced blood loss and morbidity compared with open liver resections. Several studies have suggested that the impact of cirr...
A total of 2534 patients undergoing minimally invasive major hepatectomies (MIMH) for primary malignancies across 58 centers worldwide were retrospectively reviewed. Propensity score (PSM) and coarsen...
A total of 1353 patients (53%) had no cirrhosis, 1065 (42%) had Child-Pugh A and 116 (4%) had Child-Pugh B cirrhosis. Matched comparison between non-cirrhotics vs Child-Pugh A cirrhosis demonstrated c...
The presence and severity of cirrhosis affected the difficulty and impacted the outcomes of MIMH, resulting in higher blood transfusion rates, increased postoperative morbidity, and longer hospitaliza...
The surgical resection of rectal carcinoma is associated with a high risk of permanent stoma rate. Primary anastomosis rate is suggested to be higher in robot-assisted and transanal total mesorectal e...
Patients undergoing total mesorectal excision for MRI-defined rectal cancer between 2015 and 2017 in 11 centers highly experienced in laparoscopic, robot-assisted or transanal total mesorectal excisio...
In total, 1198 patients were included. Permanent stoma rate after low anterior resection (with anastomosis or with an end colostomy) was 40.1% in patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery, 21.3% in pat...
The robot-assisted and transanal techniques are associated with a lower permanent stoma rate in patients who underwent a low anterior resection....
Children with cerebral palsy (CP) classified as gross motor function classification system (GMFCS) levels III-IV demonstrate impaired sitting and reaching control abilities that hamper their overall f...
We will recruit 82 participants with CP, GMFCS III-IV, and aged 6-17 years. Randomisation using concealed allocation to either the TruST-support or static trunk-support intervention will be conducted ...
The study was approved by the Columbia University Institutional Review Board (AAAS7804). This study is funded by the National Institutes of Health (1R01HD101903-01) and is registered at clinicaltrials...
NCT04897347; clinicaltrials.gov....
Robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) was first introduced in 2003 and has since then shown to significantly improve the postoperative course. Previous studies have shown that a st...
All patients undergoing RAMIE performed by two experienced surgeons for esophageal cancer since the introduction of the robotic technique in 2017 was included in this analysis. Intraoperative outcomes...
From 06/2017 to 03/2022, a total of 154 patients underwent RAMIE at our facility and were included in the analysis. An advancement in performance level was observed for total operating time after 70 c...
Our data and analysis showed the progression from proficient to expert performance levels during the implementation of RAMIE at a European high-volume center. Further analysis of surgeons, especially ...
The aim was to assess the surgical outcomes in obese women with endometrial cancer following robotic surgery introduction in a London tertiary gynaecological cancer unit....
Data was prospectively collected for 281 women undergoing endometrial cancer surgery in 2016, 2018 and 2019 (robotic surgery was introduced in November 2017)....
The proportion of obese and morbidly obese patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) significantly increased following robotic surgery introduction from 43.8% to 69.6% (p < 0.001). Overall ...
Robotic surgery led to a significant rise in MIS and improved surgical outcomes for obese and morbidly obese women with endometrial cancer within 12 months of its introduction....
