718810login-checkFirst robot-assisted liver transplant in US performed in St. Louis |
By Ashley Vargo
ST. LOUIS — A surgical team from Washington University’s School of Medicine has successfully performed the first robot-assisted whole-liver transplant in the U.S. — and the patient was cleared to get back on the golf course just a month later.
The surgery took place in May at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and the patient — a man in his 60s with liver cancer and cirrhosis due to a hepatitis C infection — has recovered swiftly, according to his doctors.
Read the full story in The Virginian-Pilot.
718810login-checkFirst robot-assisted liver transplant in US performed in St. Louis |