University of Iowa Health Care transplant surgeon Ramy El-Diwany recently performed the first robotic living donor ...

Renal cell carcinoma can sometimes spread to the inferior vena cava (IVC), the body's largest vein, posing a threat to the heart and brain. Robotic nephrectomy for inferior vena cava tumor thrombus ...

University of Iowa Health Care says a recent surgical milestone could expand access to life-saving kidney transplants across the state.Transplant surgeon Ramy E ...

Routine use of expensive hemostatic agents during RALPN does not seem to be justified. The use of hemostatic agents (HAs) during standard robotic-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (RALPN) does ...

The probability of surgical success with telesurgery for radical prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy for small renal masses was non-inferior to local robotic surgery in a small randomized trial. The ...

UAB Division of Transplantation Professor and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Michael Hanaway, M.D., has recently been featured on UAB MedCast. During the episode, Hanaway discusses ...

Patients who undergo single-port robotic prostate or kidney surgery tend to have less blood loss and postoperative pain and shorter hospital stays compared with patients undergoing multi-port robotic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests that a surgeon no longer needs to be in the same room as the patient, and that operating on a patient ...

Medtronic received FDA clearance for its Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system for urologic procedures. The clearance allows the system to be used in minimally invasive surgeries, including ...

A surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town has performed a first in South Africa. Urologist Dr Danelo du Plessis successfully performed a donor nephrectomy — a surgical procedure to remove a kidney ...