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Beyond living donation: robot-assisted kidney transplantation using deceased-donor grafts-a scoping review of selection, ischaemia logistics, and allograft outcomes.

Key takeaways

Surgeons are starting to use robots to place kidneys from donors who have died, not only from living donors. This review pulled together the studies done so far on who gets chosen, how the kidney is kept cold and moved in time, and how it worked out afterward. The studies were small and none compared robot surgery head to head against the usual open operation. So this shows patterns, not proof that the robot approach is better for patients.

Who did this work

Drobot RB · Domel T · Lipa M · Ludwiczak D

Source

Article · PubMed, Climate, heat and the kidney · 2026 Sep 2
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42684566/