Background: We evaluated different techniques of donor nephrectomy.
Methods: Outcomes of 4 surgical approaches (open surgery [OS], standard laparoscopy [SL], hand-assisted laparoscopy [HAL], and robot-assisted la`paroscopy [RAL]) were compared.
Results: A total of 264 nephrectomies were performed: 65 in the OS group, 65 in the SL group, 65 in the HAL group, and 69 in RAL group.
Objective: To analyze our experience and learning curve for robotic pyeloplasty during this robotic procedure.
Methods: Ninety-nine patients underwent 100 consecutive procedures. Cases were divided into 4 groups of 25 consecutive procedures to analyze the learning curve.
Background And Objectives: We aimed to assess the feasibility and outcomes of complex ureteropelvic junction obstruction cases submitted to robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty.
Methods: The records of 131 consecutive patients who underwent robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty were reviewed. Of this initial population of cases, 17 were considered complex, consisting of either atypical anatomy (horseshoe kidneys in 3 patients) or previous ureteropelvic junction obstruction management (14 patients).
Introduction: Evaluate the capability of different Computed Tomography scanners to determine urinary stone compositions based on CT attenuation values and to evaluate potential differences between each model.
Methods: 241 human urinary stones were obtained and their biochemical composition determined. Four different CT scanners (Siemens, Philips, GEMS and Toshiba) were evaluated.
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Objective: Analyze the learning curve for laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in a low volume program.
Materials And Methods: A single surgeon operated on 165 patients. Patients were consecutively divided in 3 groups of 55 patients (groups A, B, and C).
Objective: To report our experience of debriding genital wounds embedded with mineral pitch (MP) from asphalt, using a water jet-powered surgical tool, the Versajet Hydrosurgery System (VHS, Smith and Nephew, Key Largo, FL) before reconstruction.
Patients And Methods: We used the VHS for penile debridement in two patients. The first was 42-year-old Hispanic man involved in a truck-bike accident, who was dragged approximately 60 m after the collision.
Background: Since Parra reported the first case of laparoscopic repair of bladder rupture caused by nonlaparoscopic injury to the bladder in 1994, several case reports have demonstrated the feasibility of this reconstructive surgical technique. We report the series of six patients that underwent laparoscopic repair of intraperitoneal bladder rupture (LRIB) because of blunt trauma using a single layer suturing technique. To our knowledge, this is the first series of LRIB reported secondary to blunt abdominal trauma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of robot-assisted laparoscopic partial cystectomy for the treatment of rectal and bladder endometriosis.
Materials And Methods: A 23 year-old female with history of infertility and pelvic pain was found to have a 4 cm bladder mass and rectal nodule on pelvic ultrasonography. Patient denied any other genitourinary symptoms.
Objective: To report a comparison of two techniques of robotically assisted laparoscopic dismembered pyeloplasty (RALDP), and their associated outcomes, for treating pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO), evaluating the potential differences in the initial 50 cases of two centres in North America and Europe.
Patients And Methods: Between November 2001 and August 2005, 100 patients had transperitoneal RALDP for PUJO in one centre in the USA (group 1) and one in France (group 2). Group 1 consisted of 50 patients (30 males and 20 females, mean age 31 years, range 16-62) and group 2 of 50 patients (17 males and 32 females, one bilateral PUJO; mean age 39 years, range 17-81).