Naples, gives her mother a kidney to avoid dialysis
Laura (the name is fictional) knows how demanding it can be to undergo dialysis: the grandmother, who had a congenital and hereditary disease to the kidney, he had a lot. And when her mother, who has the same pathology, began to worsen, Laura decided to make her one of her kidneys.
The surgery was performed atFederico II University Hospital of Naples with an innovative technique: the minimally invasive robotic surgery, which allows greater surgical precision, the reduction of post-operative pain and hospitalization times and a more rapid functional recovery. The team of Professor Roberto Troisi, director of the Transplant Program and of the UOC of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery, who carried out the transplant together with Professor Roberto Montalti, used the virtual three-dimensional reconstructions anatomy of the kidney and its vascular structures, for an excellent surgical definition.
Laura and her mother are fine: after a few days of hospitalization they returned home. Thanks to the generosity of her daughter, the mother will not have to undergo dialysiswhich are intended for patients with chronic renal failure.
“With the robotic approach, the risks for the donor are minimal,” explains Professor Troisi. «For the removal of the organ they are practiced only three 8 mm holes on the side and a small incision in the supra-pubic area to extract the organ. The postoperative pain with the robotic approach is mild and the donor feeds on the day of the surgery. In summary, robotic technology allows you to perform highly complex interventions with extreme precision further improving the physical impact. Nowadays the minimally invasive approach in living donation is increasingly required not only for the kidney, but also for the liver ».
There are few centers in Italy that perform kidney transplantation with a minimally invasive robotic technique. At the Federico II University Hospital, since the beginning of the year, 6 have already been performed. At the moment, six other couples are being evaluated for transplantation from living donors in Naples. For some of them the possibility of crossover transplantation is being evaluated: couples for whom it is not possible to proceed with the transplant due to blood group incompatibility, can enter a circuit in search of another suitable couple, in which the donor of the first couple will donate to the recipient of the second couple, while the donor of the second couple will donate to the recipient of the first couple.