A surgical team from Washington University School of Medicine recently performed the first robotic liver transplant in the United States.
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The ground-breaking 8-hour surgery was performed last month at Barnes Jewish Hospital, where Dr. Adeel Khan led the surgical transplant team. "We did all parts of the operation using the robot. As you know, robotic surgery is fairly new and there has been an increasing interest in it in all specialties. Transplant has been a little slow to adopt it just because the surgeries are a lot more complex and liver transplant is probably the most complex among the transplant surgeries.
The patient is a man in his sixties who needed a transplant because of liver cancer and cirrhosis caused by Hepatitis C.
Dr. Khan says he is doing well and recovering at home after being discharged and asking if it was okay to go back to swimming again and when he will be well enough to play a round of golf.
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