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Robotic surgical systems have thrust minimally invasive surgical options into a new era. For years now, surgeons and urologic oncologists have relied on the minimally invasive nature and nerve-sparing virtues of the procedure known as laparoscopic cystectomy to offer their patients the most effective treatment for bladder cancer. Not so long ago at all, cystectomy was performed using a traditional open surgical procedure; and therefore usually involved notable tissue and nerve damage, significant blood loss and carried a greater risk of post-operative infections and complications. By comparison, the robotic-assisted laparoscopic cystectomy, (also known as Da Vinci Robotic Cystectomy) may seem a bit like a kind of state-of-the-art miracle. |
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In reality, the robotic cystectomy is simply a newer and more effectual minimally invasive bladder cancer surgical method. It that makes use of the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System and imitates a surgeon’s movements—and amplify their precision, and in so doing, it offers bladder cancer patients the prospect of a more effective surgical and less problematic post-surgical outcome. It is fast becoming the favored surgical answer to cancer of the bladder. A minimally invasive surgical procedure will allow your surgeon, oncologist or urologist to operate without making large incisions; the result spares vital but delicate nerve and muscle tissue and facilitates a faster recovery time, fewer complications and a shorter hospital stay.
Just as with a standard laparoscopic cystectomy, the robotic-assisted version of cystectomy may call for urinary diversion followed by reconstruction once a bladder has been removed.
For men and women alike, such reconstruction would include a continent reservoir to hold urine within the abdomen until a patient has been fitted with a either a catheter—to empty urine or a bladder replacement and an ileal conduit—a urinary diversion that will collect urine in an external bag. More importantly, using the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System will provide your physician with a superior visualization plane and more surgical dexterity during bladder removal, as well as during any necessary reconstructive procedure.
By offering your surgeon, urologist or oncologist a high-definition 3-D view, the Da Vinci Surgical Robot allows the vital muscles and delicate nerve tissues, surrounding the operative area to be more easily identified – and spared. The Robot’s unique EndoWrist Instruments offer physicians surgical dexterity that is simply not available to them when they’re using conventional laparoscopic instruments. By taking advantage of the Da Vinci Robot, surgeons are able to surgically dissect and reconstruct the bladder with relative ease.
SUMMARY OF ROBOTIC-ASSISTED CYSTECTOMY:
- The advantages of a procedure designed to spare delicate nerve and muscle tissue.
- Keyhole sized incisions distributed across you abdomen.
- A brief 4 to 7 day hospital stay.
- Less risk of blood loss …and a lower chance that you’ll need a blood transfusion.
- Reduced scarring, minimal discomfort and less need for major pain medication.
Only one to three months’ worth of recovery time before you’ll regain your normal level of urine control.
Cancers of the bladder are usually diagnosed by examining urine for cancer cells under a microscope (known as urine cytology) or during cystoscopy – an inspection of the bladder with a slender tube (known as a cystoscope) equipped with a lens and a light that is inserted into a bladder through the urethra.
*The benefits of da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy cannot be guaranteed as surgery is both patient and procedure specific.
BENEFITS OF ROBOTIC-ASSISTED CYSTECTOMY:
- Minimal damage to vital muscle and delicate nerve tissue as a result of the surgery.
- A shorter hospital stay and an even faster return to your normal level of activity.
- Fewer noticeable scars.
- Minimized risk of blood loss.
- Minimized chances of post-operative infections.
- Minimized chances of post-operative incontinence or impotence.
- Minimized chances of other complications commonly associated with cystectomy.
- Minimal post-operative pain and discomfort
- You’ll have the unprecedented capacity of the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System to offer surgeons, oncologists and urologists a high-definition, three-dimensional view of the procedure as well as robotically assisted suturing and stitching, at your disposal.
TYPICAL OPEN SURGICAL CYSTECTOMY:
- Greater risks associated with any procedure that requires a larger surgical cut-in
- Potentially greater discomfort and a longer post-operative hospital stay
- Potenntially more postoperative scarring, muscle damage and nerve damage
- Potentially more postoperative soreness and a greater need for perscription pain medication
- Longer post operative recovery time
Before you decide on which course of action would be right for you, it may help you to know that open surgery patients can experience five times the loss of blood, have four times the risk of other complications, a high chance of infection, incontinence or impotence and are forced to spend roughly three times as much time in the hospital as patients who opt for robotic-assisted surgery.
Robotic-Assisted cystectomy also offers patients a cancer removal rate that’s 14% higher … as well as increased prospects that they’ll be able to engage in normal sexual activity in as little as 11 months — by comparison, patients who opt for open surgery are often unable to for years.
For more information about bladder cancer or robotic cystectomy, please contact us today.
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