Mumbai: Robotic Liver Donation Surgery Successfully Attempted In 40-Year-Old

Mumbai, 22nd March 2023: Doctors in Mumbai have recently succeeded in performing organ donation surgery completely robotically. A 40-year-old woman underwent robotic liver donation surgery.

Sujata Sahu (40) underwent a robotic liver donation surgery at Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai. Doctors managed to perform a life-saving liver transplant on her 69-year-old father, Panchanan Patra, who was suffering from autoimmune-related cirrhosis and liver cancer. Before the transplant, Sujata was eager to save her father’s life by donating a part of her liver. However, she was afraid of the abdominal injury and pain caused by the surgery. Due to this reason, many donors do not come forward to donate organs. So the doctor decided to perform the surgery robotically. Robotic surgery does not cause a large wound on the abdomen and also reduces pain.

The donor was operated on by making eight to 10-mm abdominal incisions with the help of robotic instruments. After the donor’s liver was ready to be harvested, the doctor made a nine cm incision in the lower abdomen to remove it. The incision was much smaller than the usual surgery. During this surgery, no muscle was cut, said senior robotic transplant surgeon Dr Kamal Yadav.

The patient’s total diseased liver resection, robotically implanted half of the liver, and the donor’s liver surgeries together took about nine hours. Sujata was sent home after six days and her father was 12 days after the transplant. Dr A. S. Soin, Dr Kamal Yadav, Dr Amit Rastogi and Dr Praveen Agarwal performed this surgery successfully.