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Chiang Mai surgeons make history with world-first robotic liver donor surgery
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CHIANG MAI — 28 May 2026, Surgeons at Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Medicine have performed the world’s first living donor liver surgery using the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system, a breakthrough that also marks Thailand’s first robot-assisted living donor liver transplant.
Key facts
- CHIANG MAI — 28 May 2026, Surgeons at Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Medicine have performed the world’s first living donor liver surgery using the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system, a breakthrough that also marks Thailand’s first
- The faculty announced the achievement at a press conference on Wednesday, revealing that its team had successfully used the Hugo RAS system to remove the left lobe of the liver from living donors in two separate transplant cases — one
- In the first case, a 40-year-old mother donated part of her liver to her nine-year-old daughter, who was born with biliary atresia, a condition that blocks the bile ducts, and had developed severe cirrhosis with complications affecting her
- In the second case, a 27-year-old woman donated part of her liver to her 61-year-old father, who had cirrhosis and liver cancer
Summary
The faculty announced the achievement at a press conference on Wednesday, revealing that its team had successfully used the Hugo RAS system to remove the left lobe of the liver from living donors in two separate transplant cases — one involving a child patient and one an adult.
In the first case, a 40-year-old mother donated part of her liver to her nine-year-old daughter, who was born with biliary atresia, a condition that blocks the bile ducts, and had developed severe cirrhosis with complications affecting her lungs and blood pressure. The girl had previously undergone a Kasai procedure as an infant and required supplemental oxygen at home before the transplant.