Surgeons at St. Nicholas Children's Hospital in Lviv have for the first time in Ukraine formed the bile ducts of an infant using the Da Vinci robot. This was reported by UNN with reference to the First Medical Association of Lviv
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Without this life-saving surgery, little Oksanka from Ivano-Frankivsk region might not have lived to be a year old, doctors said. A few days after the baby was born, her parents noticed yellowing of her body and sclera of her eyes. Then they sought medical help.
The infant was diagnosed with biliary atresia. This is an anatomical defect in which bile is not excreted from the liver. Initially, the pathology leads to the death of the organ, and then the person himself. Only an urgent operation developed by Japanese surgeon Morio Kasai could save the baby. It is performed up to three months of age.
The girl was operated on May 6 with the help of the Da Vinci Si robotic-assisted system. This is how Kasai's operation is performed in Japan, the USA and South Korea. Lviv pediatric surgeons formed a new channel for bile outflow in the infant. And thanks to the involvement of the robot, they did it without blood loss.
Kasai's operation does not solve the problem completely. It allows doctors to buy time for children like Oksanka to grow up, get stronger and live to see a future liver transplant.
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The operated girl is feeling well now: the yellowness of her body and sclera has decreased. The child's life is not in danger. In the future, doctors will monitor Oksanka's condition during monthly check-ups.
In total, about 100 interventions have already been performed on children using the Da Vinci robotic system at the First Medical Association of Lviv. And this is one of the highest rates among hospitals in Eastern Europe. In Ukraine, specialists from St. Nicholas Hospital are the only ones who operate on children with the help of a surgical robot.
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In the fall, a unique operation was performed in Lviv with the involvement of the Da Vinci Si robotic-assisted system on a 6-year-old girl with Wilkie's syndrome, who lost 4 kg due to problems with digestion. Thanks to the surgical robot, doctors created a bypass for food, which saved the child's life.