A transplant surgeon at the University of Iowa Health Care performed the first robotic surgery for a living kidney donation.

The University of Iowa's headway in robotic kidney removal surgery is expected to increase donor eligibility.

Banner UMC has become the first hospital in Tucson to use robotic surgery for living kidney donor transplants, a technique ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower rates of adverse outcomes were linked to higher technical skill Surgeons with higher scores had lower ...

The probability of surgical success with telesurgery for radical prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy for small renal masses was non-inferior to local robotic surgery in a small randomized trial. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests that a surgeon no longer needs to be in the same room as the patient, and that operating on a patient ...

UAB Division of Transplantation Professor and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Michael Hanaway, M.D., has recently been featured on UAB MedCast. During the episode, Hanaway discusses ...

Renal cell carcinoma can sometimes spread to the inferior vena cava (IVC), the body's largest vein, posing a threat to the heart and brain. Robotic nephrectomy for inferior vena cava tumor thrombus ...

Patients who undergo single-port robotic prostate or kidney surgery tend to have less blood loss and postoperative pain and shorter hospital stays compared with patients undergoing multi-port robotic ...