Ian smiles and He does not stop for a moment in front of the Vall d’Hebron Hospital, in Barcelona. No one would say it was kidney surgery thanks to high-precision robotic surgery. The boy, who was 10 years old, was with his father in Argentina when he felt “great pain” because “his kidney was inflamed,” he says, surrounded by journalists and without losing his smile.
She tells us the surgery was pretty “scary” but that she can now get back to swimming, one of her favorite activities.
Pediatric robotic surgery
The Vall Hebron pediatric urology team decided to operate on him with the help of the Da Vinci robot. Created with NASA technology, this robot offers many advantages over traditional surgery and greater precision than traditional laparoscopic surgery.
It is a form “unify open surgery with minimally invasive surgery”, Dr. Glòria Royo, Pediatric Surgery in Urology, tells us: “it allows you to work in very small spaces, to perform suturing, dissections and the post-operative period is super fast.” This speed is also confirmed by his mother Laia Tornerová, “within a week Ian went to school and in two he was back for swimming lessons.”
Ian suffered renal colic while traveling. In your case, an obstruction to the flow of urine from the kidney to the bladder “It wasn’t the fault of any stones, but a birth defect: “The part that connects the kidney to the ureter, the tube that carries urine to the bladder, was very narrow and was causing a painful crisis,” says the doctor. Robotic surgery is performed using a console that virtually controls three robotic arms deployed by the patient: one carries the camera and the other two manipulate the surgical material.
Dr. Royo explains that “the Da Vinci robot does not have the autonomy to perform surgical movements, the surgeons are the brains of the procedures, and the robot’s arms only translate the movements of the professionals’ hands.”
Robotic arms enable highly precise intervention with minimal, less invasive and precise incisions. They also eliminate tremors, involuntary movements, and postural fatigue that surgeons can suffer during long procedures. In addition, robotic arms enable movements that are impossible for a human arm.
Since 2010, the pediatric urology team has operated on more than a hundred patients who, like Ian, have already successfully recovered from surgery.
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