At theComplex Urological Clinical Operating Unit of the “San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d’Aragona” University Hospital of Salernodirected by the Professor Paolo Verzea radical cystectomy with a robotic technique was successfully performed ninety-year-old patient suffering from infiltrating bladder cancer.
The lady had been denied this opportunity in other hospital locations due to problems relating to her advanced age, consequently condemning her to not receive any treatment, also because in this specific case no alternative therapies are provided.
“It has come to our attention – underlined Dr. Verze – instead, it seemed appropriate to carry out an in-depth evaluation from a surgical point of view in order to precisely define the real operative risk”.
The operation, the result of team work between urological surgeons, namely Dr. Verze and Dr Gianmarco Silvestreand anesthesiologists Renato Gammaldi And Antonio Romanelli it was brilliantly passed by the patient, who was discharged after 5 days of hospitalization without any complications.
Since the robotic platform was installed at the “Ruggi” in Salerno, more than 130 highly complex operations have been performed exclusively in uro-oncology (prostate, renal and bladder cancer) and this operation with the robotic cystectomy technique, carried out on a fragile patient, represents the culmination of the surgical activity achieved by the Urology Clinic UOC of the hospital.
The Company’s Strategic Management, which focuses on innovation and the continuous implementation of cutting-edge techniques that ensure the safety of treatments, to improve the quality of life of patients, congratulates the entire team that managed the case .
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