A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant.
The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient in the U.S., according to a June 17 news release shared with Becker’s.
Led by Kenneth Liao, MD, PhD, chief of cardiothoracic transplantation and circulatory support at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, surgeons avoided chest incision by robotically implanting the new heart via preperitoneal space, the release said.
After transplantation, the 45-year-old patient spent one month in the hospital before being discharged home without complications.
