Urology Breakthrough: Single-Port Laparoscopic Surgeries
Dr Mihir Desai, a urological surgeon at Cleveland Clinic, has performed the world’s first single-port laparoscopic surgeries in the field of urology.
The innovative procedures were completed by inserting all the necessary instruments through a single incision in the patient’s navel. Laparoscopic surgeries traditionally require 3 to 6 abdominal incisions.
Dr Desai’s single-port surgeries included a laparoscopic nephrectomy (complete kidney removal), bilateral pyeloplasty (uretero-pelvic junction repair), ileal ureter replacement, and psoas hitch uretero-neocystostomy (for ureteral obstruction).
Indications are the new approach not only reduces pain but, when performed trans-umbilically through the navel, it also leaves no visible scar.
During the procedures, Dr Desai employed a device known as the r-Port™, developed by Advanced Surgical Concepts Ltd of Ireland.
Detailed information on the surgeries will be published in the British Journal of Urology International.
Source: United Press International
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