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Robotic surgeons successfully complete liver transplant

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By Chad Van Alstin

Surgeons may have to start worrying about machines taking their jobs. A research hospital in Saudi Arabia has just achieved the world’s first fully robotic liver transplant—and the patient survived and is doing fine. 

The recipient of this pioneering procedure was a 66-year-old Saudi male who has since recovered and been discharged, according to a statement from the hospital. The transplant was conducted by the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC), which is becoming world famous for its robotic surgeons, who just last year successfully performed delicate brain surgery, albeit with the support of humans.
Read more in HealthExec.

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Region’s first robotic liver transplant; donor’s second gifted organ

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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.

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