Surgery

Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Simple and Complex Degenerative Disease: Midterm Clinical and Echocardiographic Quality Outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Severe primary (degenerative) mitral regurgitation (MR) is repaired with durable results...

Robotic, laparoscopic and open surgery for gastric cancer compared on surgical, clinical and oncological outcomes: a multi-institutional chart review. A study protocol of the International study group on Minimally Invasive surgery for GASTRIc Cancer-IMIGASTRIC.

INTRODUCTION: Gastric cancer represents a great challenge for healthcare providers and requires a mu...

Intact parathormone measurement 1 hour after total thyroidectomy as a predictor of symptomatic hypocalcemia.

OBJECTIVE: Postoperative iPTH assay may predict significant hypocalcemia after thyroid surgery. The ...

Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms with Gene Expression Profiling to Predict Recurrent Nonmuscle Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder.

PURPOSE: Due to the high recurrence risk of nonmuscle invasive urothelial carcinoma it is crucial to...

First Robotic-Assisted Dual Kidney Transplant: Surgical Technique and Report of a Case With 24-month Follow-up.

BACKGROUND: Open surgery is the gold standard procedure for kidney transplantation. There is a stron...

Scintigraphic Small Intestinal Transit Time and Defaecography in Patients with J-Pouch.

Objective methods for examination of pouch function are warranted for a better understanding of the ...

Reply to Véronique Phé, Morgan Rouprêt, and Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler's Letter to the Editor re: Xavier Biardeau, Jérôme Rizk, François Marcelli, Vincent Flamand. Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Approach for Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implantation in 11 Women with Urinary Stress Incontinence: Surgical Technique and Initial Experience. Eur Urol 2015;67:937-42.

Re: Xavier Biardeau, Jérôme Rizk, François Marcelli, Vincent Flamand. Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Approach for Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implantation in 11 Women with Urinary Stress Incontinence: Surgical Technique and Initial Experience. Eur Urol 2015;67:937-42.

Perioperative pulmonary complications in obese patients undergoing robotic procedures for gynecological cancers.

Surgical robotics beyond enhanced dexterity instrumentation: a survey of machine learning techniques and their role in intelligent and autonomous surgical actions.

PURPOSE: Advances in technology and computing play an increasingly important role in the evolution o...

Hybrid RGSA and Support Vector Machine Framework for Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Brain Tumor Classification.

A novel hybrid approach for the identification of brain regions using magnetic resonance images acco...

Evaluation of positive surgical margins in patients undergoing robot-assisted and open radical prostatectomy according to preoperative risk groups.

OBJECTIVES: Recent studies showed that robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) represents an onc...

The Effects of Fluidic Loading on Underwater Contact Sensing with Robotic Fins and Beams.

As robots become more involved in underwater operations, understanding underwater contact sensing wi...

Rapid regression of cystoid macular edema associated with cytomegalovirus retinitis in adult acute myeloid leukemia by intravitreal methotrexate combined with oral valganciclovir: A case report with comparison of binocular outcome.

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is a late complication of organ and hematopoietic stem cell transpla...

Robustness and Reliability of Synergy-Based Myocontrol of a Multiple Degree of Freedom Robotic Arm.

In this study, we test the feasibility of the synergy- based approach for application in the realist...

Comparison of Perioperative Blood Loss in Primary Non-cemented Total Hip Arthroplasty for Rapidly Destructive Coxarthrosis and Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to compare the perioperative blood loss in primary non-cemente...

Robotically Assisted Single Anastomosis Duodenoileal Bypass after Previous Sleeve Gastrectomy Implementing High Valuable Technology for Complex Procedures.

Staged bariatric procedures in high risk patients are a common used strategy for morbid obese patien...

Beating Heart Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients With Patent Coronary Bypass Grafts.

BACKGROUND: Redo mitral valve surgery in patients with patent coronary bypass grafts carries a risk ...

Radical Vaginal Trachelectomy with Laparoscopic Pelvic Lymphadenectomy for Fertility Preservation in Young Women with Early-Stage Cervical Cancer.

The primary objective of this study was to describe our experience with the conservative treatment o...

Robotic surgery in children: adopt now, await, or dismiss?

The role of robot-assisted surgery in children remains controversial. This article aims to distil th...

Towards soft robotic devices for site-specific drug delivery.

Considerable research efforts have recently been dedicated to the establishment of various drug deli...