alex revision
November 4th, 2010, 01:32 PM
Robots perform delicate pancreas transplant in amazing world first
4th November 2010
Doctors have carried out the world's first robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant on a mother-of-two in Italy.
The team from Pisa Hospital performed the operation on a 43-year-old woman who had suffered from type one diabetes for 19 years and had already had a kidney transplant.
She suffered no complications during the three-hour procedure and left hospital three days ago.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1326300/Worlds-robot-pancreas-transplant-open-new-diabetes-treatment.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz14L7N2F7E
4th November 2010
Doctors have carried out the world's first robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant on a mother-of-two in Italy.
The team from Pisa Hospital performed the operation on a 43-year-old woman who had suffered from type one diabetes for 19 years and had already had a kidney transplant.
She suffered no complications during the three-hour procedure and left hospital three days ago.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1326300/Worlds-robot-pancreas-transplant-open-new-diabetes-treatment.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz14L7N2F7E