← brief for 2026-09-05 · Transplant & xeno

Robot-assisted versus open kidney transplantation in patients who previously underwent an open kidney transplant.

Key takeaways

Doctors compared two ways to do a kidney transplant in people who had already had an open transplant operation before: robot-assisted surgery and standard open surgery. They looked back at records for 78 people with kidney failure at 7 European centers, treated between 2015 and 2023, all with living donors. Because this looks backward at charts instead of assigning people at random, it shows a link, not proof that one method is safer.

Who did this work

Afferi L (Department of Surgery, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. [email protected].) · Donnini I (Department of Urology, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain.) · Gallioli A (Department of Urology, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain.) · Etcheverry B (Department of Urology, Hospital Bellvitge, Bellvitge, Spain.) · Vangeneugden J (Department of Urology, Uz Gent, Gent, Belgium.) · Mercier J (Department of Urology, Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.) · Territo A (Department of Urology, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain.) · Prudhomme T (Department of Urology, Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.) · Masieri L (Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence-Unit of Oncology, Florence, Italy.) · Pecoraro A (Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence-Unit of Oncology, Florence, Italy.) · Ortiz Benitez N (Department of Urology, Puerta del Mar University Hospital, Cadiz, Spain.) · García-Baquero R (Department of Urology, Puerta del Mar University Hospital, Cadiz, Spain.)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-09-04
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-026-06754-x