Two years after the start, in March 2022, of robotic surgery activities at the Vito Fazzi in Lecce, over 500 operations have been performed with the Da Vinci Xi robot.
Video-assisted robotic surgery – which allows patients’ ‘trauma’ to be minimized and hospital stays to a minimum – represents the most advanced frontier of minimally invasive surgery, which has evolved to the point of allowing the execution of highly complex operations in all thoraco-abdominal areas, even those anatomically more difficult to reach such as the liver, biliary tract and pancreas.
There are numerous advantages of this method: it increases the quality of the healthcare services offered, especially for cancer patients, it enhances patient safety by benefiting from the reduction in risks that a minimally invasive intervention entails and, last but not least, it offers patients citizens the possibility of obtaining excellent surgical services in their own territory, thus limiting travel outside the province or region.
In the first two years, in the ”Vito Fazzi” of Lecce, 533 robotic surgery operations were performed, all by the medical staff of the General Surgery UOC, directed by Dr. Marcello Spampinato, and the Urology UOC, directed by Dr. Vincenzo Pagliarulo. In detail, the following were performed: 140 operations on the liver-biliary tract-pancreas, 62 operations on the esophagus and stomach, 32 colorectal operations, 180 prostate surgery operations, 109 renal surgery operations and 10 adrenal operations.
