Open AccessDallas UtErus Transplant Study: Early Outcomes and Complications of Robot-assisted Hysterectomy for Living Uterus Donors
Author(s) -
Liza Johannesson,
E. C. Koon,
Johanna Bayer,
Gregory J. McKenna,
Anji Wall,
Hoylan Fernandez,
Eric Martinez,
Amar Gupta,
Richard Ruiz,
Nicholas Onaca,
Giuliano Testa
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000003211
Subject(s) - medicine , hysterectomy , uterus , laparotomy , surgery , retrospective cohort study , transplantation
Uterus transplantation is a treatment for absolute uterine infertility and can be performed with living and deceased donors. Given the safety and increased utilization of robotic assistance with other gynecologic and transplant donor operations, we adopted a robot-assisted approach to donor hysterectomy. This study compared early outcomes and morbidity of the robot-assisted approach to donor hysterectomy with the traditionally performed open approach and addressed whether the robot-assisted approach is safe and offers advantages for the donor.