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| Comment on “Robotic surgery and liver transplantation: A single-center experience of 501 robotic donor hepatectomies” |
| Xiang-Yan Liu a , # , Yun-Yang Xu b , # , Ze Xiang b , Shu-Sen Zheng a , ∗ |
a Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang Shuren University Shulan International Medical College, Hangzhou 310015, China
b Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China
∗ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: shusenzheng@zju.edu.cn (S.-S. Zheng) .
# Contributed equally. |
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Abstract We read with great interest the article by Schulze et al. entitled “Robotic surgery and liver transplantation: A single-center experience of 501 robotic donor hepatectomies” [1] . It is the first single-center report including over 500 fully robotic donor hepatectomies. For the donors, the overall complication rate was 6.4% ( n = 32). Postoperative self-limiting bleeding (0.4%) and bile leakage from the resection plane (1.8%) were rare, none of which required further action. For recipients, the three-year actual overall recipient survival was 91.4%. Retransplantation rate was low (1.2%) as were the rates of biliary (5.6%) and vascular (4.4%) complications. Through this study, the authors demonstrated that robotic surgery is relatively mature in donor hepatectomies.
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2024, Vol. 23 
