bluerose asked:


My boyfriend is having the new robotic assisted heart valve surgery soon he is in his early 30’s with regurigiatation (leaky heart valve) They were going to delay the surgery until the first of next year with the help of constant weekly check ups and medication but he is having chest pain not relieved by the medication that they are giving him now they have to move up his surgery for around the Thanksgiving time. The surgery is assisted with the help of a robot and they will cut open a small part of his ribs in his side vs the invasive mid sternum cut and they will put in a mechanical valve. He wont have the small cuts in his chest like other robotic heart surgeries. But he is very nervous about the whole surgery thing. But I told him that the the less invasive surgery hes having is less risky than normal surgery for I am positive on the high success rate of these surgeries. Has anybody had a valve replacement with the new robot assisted surgery and what are statitics of the robot surgery verses the old fashioned regular surgery?

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roboticsurgeryUIC asked:

A small sample of the robotic proceures performed at the University of Illinois at Chicago by Dr. Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti. More informations and videos available at www.surgery.uic.edu

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