Living Donor Robot-Assisted Kidney Transplantation: a New Standard of Care?

Journal: Current urology reports
Published Date: Dec 16, 2021

Abstract

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) has the potential to combine the advantages of minimally invasive surgery with the best renal replacement treatment. Over the last decade, the results were encouraging, as surgical and functional outcomes seem optimal in living donation. Recent studies focused on the comparison with open kidney transplantation (OKT), special situations such as obese patients or multiple vessels grafts and optimization of the technique to increase its surgical indications.

Authors

  • Andrea Gallioli
    Department of Urology, Fundaciò Puigvert, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Urology, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: andrea.gallioli@gmail.com.
  • Juan Gomez Rivas
    Department of Urology, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
  • Alessandro Larcher
    Division of Oncology, Unit of Urology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
  • Alberto Breda
    Department of Urology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Fundaciò Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: albbred@hotmail.com.

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