site news Perioperative outcomes following robot‑assisted partial nephrectomy for complex renal masses: A Vattikuti Collective Quality Initiative database study Date : October, 2022 An International team has released a study on Robot Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (RAPN) in the Indian Journal of Urology using data from the Vattikuti Collective...
site news Medtronic HUGO Robot Patient Study Released Date : July 8, 2022 Our European friends at the ORSI Academy and OLV Hospital in Aalst, Belgium have finished their initial study of five robot assisted radical prostatectomy cases done using the newly-approved Medtronic HUGO RAS robotic surgical system....
site news Genitourinary Reconstructive Symposium Set Date : July 6, 2022 It is a topic that more surgeons are facing in today's world: gender change requests and ultimately- procedures. Our friends & colleagues from Henry Ford Health (the new name for the Henry Ford Health System) are...
site news Major breakthrough in the robotic surgery of localized prostate cancer Date : May 23, 2022 Vattikuti Urology Institute at the Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, the birthplace of da Vinci robotic surgery registers yet another disruptive surgical innovation to its credit,which gives hope to patients undergoing...
site news The clinical and financial implications of a decade of prostate biopsies in the NHS : analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics data 2008-2019 Date : July 2020 We present this research from former Vattikuti Fellow, Ashwin Tamhankar, who has recently been published in the British Journal of...
site news Effective Method to Re-use N-95 Respirator Masks Safely Date : January 5, 2022 Thanks to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, some hospitals around the world are finding it difficult to obtain N-95 respirator masks needed to protect their medical staff. These masks are the recognized standard...
site news Artificial Intelligence Now Being Used to Select UTI Treatment Regimen Date : January 3, 2022 Our colleagues in Urology will be interested to learn that Israeli researchers at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have developed an algorithm for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program concerning UTI's in...
site news New York City Hospitals Change Race-Based Healthcare Delivery Date : December 15, 2021 For decades, algorithms used in New York City hospitals have indicated different levels of care for people of different racial backgrounds. In November, the NYC Health Department launched an effort to rewrite...
site news VUI Precision Prostatectomy Outcomes Study Published Date : December 4, 2021 Dr. Mani Menon and his team from the Vattikuti Urology Institute have newly published research in the European Urology Surgery-in Motion series: Description of Surgical Technique and Oncologic and Functional Outcomes of the Precision Prostatectomy...
The incidence of oropharyngeal carcinoma has been on the rise in recent decades. About 30% of patients who undergo definitive chemoradiation as the initial treatment present with residual/recurrent disease. In such a situation, surgical salvage either in the form of traditional open surgery or transoral...
To analyze the outcomes of patients in whom cortical (outer) renorrhaphy (CR) was omitted during robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN). Methods: We analyzed 1453 patients undergoing RPN, from 2006 to 2018, within a large multi-institutional database. Patients having surgery for bilateral tumors (n = 73) were...
The Vattikuti Collective Quality Initiative database was used for a study of Machine Learning (ML) being used to help predict outcomes for partial nephrectomy patients. 'Predicting intra‐operative and postoperative consequential events using machine‐learning techniques in patients undergoing robot‐assisted partial nephrectomy: a Vattikuti Collective Quality...
To report long-term oncological and functional outcome of Transoral Robotic Surgery escalated treatment including radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for Stage III-IV HPV negative oropharyngeal malignancies. METHOD: From March 2013 to September 2015, 153 patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma were included in the study. Patients were evaluated for...
A recent study produced by our friends at the Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery, King’s College London, has been honored as the BJUI Article of the week (for 12-19-2018). Cognitive training for technical and non‐technical skills in robotic surgery: a randomised controlled trial, discusses the...
We aimed to investigate the effects of intra-abdominal pressure and steep Trendelenburg position on the intrarenal vascular parameters and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in the first 24 hours of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) surgery. We prospectively studied 31 men who underwent RARP for prostate cancer...
Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) outcomes might be importantly affected by increasing surgical experience (EXP). The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of EXP on warm ischemia time (WIT), presence of at least one Clavien-Dindo ≥2 postoperative complication (CD ≥ 2), and positive...
Kidney autotransplantation (KAT) is the ultimate way to salvage kidneys with complex renovascular, ureteral, or malignant pathologies that are not amenable to in situ reconstruction. A minimally invasive approach could broaden its adoption....
The gap in prostate cancer (PCa) survival between Blacks and Whites has widened over the past decade. Investigators hypothesize that this disparity may be partially attributable to differences in rates of definitive therapy between races....
To evaluate retroperitoneal robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) against transperitoneal approach in a multi-institutional prospective database, after accounting for potential selection bias that may affect this comparison. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Post-hoc analysis of the prospective arm of the Vattikuti Collective Quality Initiative database from 2014-2018. Six...