4.1 Introduction The advent of robotics in medicine has generated new avenues in surgical care. Robotic platforms provide surgeons with enhanced visualization and improved degrees of freedom of intraoperative movement…
6.1 Background Gettman et al. described the first cases of single site laparoscopic renal surgery in a porcine model performed via transvaginal approach. This was a natural orifice transluminal endoscopic…
3.1 Introduction Since the advent of the da Vinci Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, California, United States) in 2000, the robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has quickly risen to become the…
2.1 Introduction The da Vinci SP robot was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2018. Due to its short life on the market, studies describing the…
1.1 Introduction While the idea of using a “single port” for diagnostic and simple interventions has been in place in the surgical field for many decades, it was only in…
It is estimated that the population of human gut microbiome is around 100 trillion bacterial cells. That would mean there are more bacterial cells inside us than our own human…
Being stranded in the middle of a vast ocean is life’s biggest irony of eventual death—being surrounded by water everywhere, but to die due to lack of water. This happens…
Glomerular and Vascular Disorders Sharon G. Adler Cynthia C. Nast Tiane Dai Phuong-Thu T. Pham Phuong-Chi T. Pham GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF GLOMERULAR DISEASES Kidney Biopsy Kidney biopsy…
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Ashita J. Tolwani Phuong-Chi T. Pham BACKGROUND Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is beneficial for hemodynamically unstable patients and generally provides better volume control than intermittent…
Kidney Transplantation Phuong-Thu T. Pham Phuong-Chi T. Pham Michelle J. Hickey Jonathan E. Zuckerman EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL KIDNEY TRANSPLANT CANDIDATE Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for suitable…
