First-ever robotic kidney transplant carried out in Qatar
Hyderabad, April 27 -- Qatar has successfully performed the first robotic kidney transplant surgery on a patient in his seventies at Hamad General Hospital.
This comes after several weeks of preparation by a multidisciplinary team affiliated with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
The patient had been experiencing chronic kidney failure for years, requiring daily peritoneal dialysis and high blood pressure.
The surgical procedure, led by a robotic surgery and organ transplantation team under the guidance of Dr Abdullah Al-Ansari, chief medical officer at HMC.
"The Da Vinci robot successfully performed a two and a half-hour surgical procedure to transplant a new kidney from a brain-dead donor, ensuring tissue identicality and approval fr...
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