Robots Aiding Surgery –Performs Removal Kidneys & Pancreas

• The first use of robotic surgery to remove kidney and pancreas had taken place in the University of Illinois Medical Center .The surgeons claim that this is the first of it's kind in the world .
  The center claims it is one of only two in the United States to perform living-donor kidney-pancreas transplants, and the only center to use robotic technology for the removal of the two organs.The recipient, a 34-year-old man with Type 1 diabetes, suffered kidney failure as a result of the disease. The donor was his wife who donated her left kidney and approximately 50 percent of her pancreas to her husband.
  During the surgery, physicians inserted the laparoscope and the robotic arms through half-inch incisions in the donor's abdomen to control precisely the real-time movements of the surgical instruments inside the patient.Both organs were removed from the donor through a 2 3/4-inch incision and then transplanted into the recipient during traditional open surgery. Surgeons said the kidney and pancreas are functioning normally and the patient no longer requires insulin to control his diabetes.