Robotic Surgery

Kidney Cancer

If you require surgery for kidney cancer or other kidney disease, you may be a candidate for a minimally invasive, kidney-sparing surgery. Depending on your disease state and tumor location, you may not have to lose your entire kidney to surgery. A surgical technique called partial nephrectomy removes only the diseased part of your kidney while sparing the healthy, functioning kidney tissue.

Sparing kidney tissue is important because studies show that patients who have their entire kidney removed are more likely to suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD) after surgery than patients who received a kidney-sparing partial nephrectomy.

In fact, the American Urological Association states that partial nephrectomy is the gold standard treatment option for small to medium-sized kidney tumors or masses.

The da VinciSurgical System uses state-of-the-art technology to help your doctor provide the gold standard treatment, where indicated, and also perform a more precise operation. da Vinci offers several potential benefits to patients facing kidney surgery, including:

• Excellent clinical outcomes and cancer control
• Short hospital stay
• Low blood loss
• Precise tumor removal and kidney reconstruction
• Excellent chance of preserving the kidney, in certain operations
• Low rate of operative complications

If your doctor is able to preserve your healthy, functioning kidney tissue, this can help to prevent future kidney disease and even dialysis.

da Vinci Surgery for kidney conditions uses the tried and true techniques of open surgery and applies them to a robotic-assisted, minimally invasive approach. With the benefits of da VinciSurgery, doctors may be able to perform a partial nephrectomy or kidney-sparing surgery (healthy, functioning kidney tissue is spared) to help minimize the onset of chronic kidney disease.

The precision and dexterity of the da Vinci Surgical System’s advanced instrumentation provides for a minimally invasive approach to treating kidney disorders and kidney cancer.

For additional information on minimally invasive surgery with the da Vinci® Surgical System visit www.davincisurgery.com/urology