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This picture offered by Seoul Nationwide College Hospital reveals medical doctors performing a liver transplant utilizing a robotic and a laparoscope.
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Nationwide College Hospital efficiently accomplished a liver transplant process with out leaving scars for each the organ donor and recipient utilizing a robotic and a laparoscope.
The hospital introduced on Tuesday that it had succeeded in excising the liver of a donor and transplanting it in a recipient utilizing pure laparoscopic hepatectomy.
The transplant utilizing a robotic and a laparoscope with out opening the stomach of the donor was a world first.
Opening the stomach can go away enormous scar marks, however surgical procedure utilizing a robotic and a laparoscope leaves solely a number of tiny holes.
To take out and transplant the liver, the pubic bone space should first be excised. This space, nevertheless, is roofed by underwear. Accordingly, scars are hidden even when the person is topless.
“The brand new surgical process can free recipients from enormous surgical procedure scars, whereas decreasing issues related to the lungs and scars and shortening the restoration time,” stated Suh Kyung-suk, a professor on the liver transplant crew.
The outcomes of analysis into this process have been printed within the American Journal of Transplantation and the British Journal of Surgical procedure.
Lina Jang (linajang@koreabizwire.com)
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