Robot Assisted Uterus Transplant Delivers a Healthy Baby
In what Swedish surgeons at the University of Gothenburg call “the Robot Project,” a baby has been delivered after a robot-assisted minimally invasive uterus transplant. “The donor is operated on through one-centimeter incisions in the abdomen. The robotic arms holding the surgical instruments are guided by two surgeons, one on each side of the patient. Each surgeon sits at a personal workstation a few meters away, with a joystick-like tool and magnified 3D screen image that allows immense precision for operating deep inside the lower abdomen. Towards the end of the procedure, another incision is made so that the uterus can be removed. It is then immediately inserted in the recipient by means of open surgery.” The embryo implanted came from in vitro fertilization. MORE
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