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CMU marks Thailand first with robotic living-donor liver surgery
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The Faculty of Medicine at Chiang Mai University has reported a major medical breakthrough after successfully using the Hugo™ robotic-assisted surgery system to remove the left lobe of the liver from two living donors for transplantation.
Key facts
- The largest share has been in urological surgery, accounting for 53.5% of cases, followed by hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery at 28.3% and colorectal surgery at 12.1%.
- In the first case, a 40-year-old mother donated part of her liver to her nine-year-old daughter, who had congenital biliary atresia.
- In the second case, a 27-year-old daughter donated part of her liver to her 61-year-old father, who had cirrhosis and liver cancer.
- The Faculty of Medicine at Chiang Mai University has now completed 100 robotic-assisted surgeries across several specialties.
Summary
Health & Wellness
The procedures were performed on two donor-recipient pairs, making them the first successful cases of their kind in Thailand. The university also said the operations marked the world’s first use of the Hugo™ robotic system for liver surgery involving living donors.