735800login-checkRegion’s first robotic liver transplant; donor’s second gifted organ |
Robotic liver transplants, perfected in the Middle East, and now done in Colorado, promise fewer complications, faster recovery.
By Todd Neff, for CU Health
For Colorado and neighboring states, it was a first.
Never before in the region had a liver-transplant donor surgery been performed by a surgical robot. Given the robotic procedure’s proven advantages in shorter recovery time and fewer complications, the timing couldn’t have been better.
The robotic part was new for Danel Kuhlmann also. But she had donated an organ before. Read more from CU Health.
735800login-checkRegion’s first robotic liver transplant; donor’s second gifted organ |