Robot-assisted versus open kidney transplantation: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Robot-assisted kidney transplant associated with less intraoperative blood loss than open surgery
Robot-assisted versus open kidney transplantation: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (robot-assisted kidney transplantation) has emerged as a minimally invasive alternative to open kidney transplantation (open kidney transplantation).
To compare the outcomes of robot-assisted kidney transplantation and open kidney transplantation through an umbrella review of published systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Only meta-analysis and systematic review were included.
We assessed methodological quality via the AMSTAR-2 tool.
On the other hand, cold ischemia times, rewarming time, total ischemia time, operative time and ileus rate were favored in open surgery.
Same rejection rates, graft failure, mortality and hospital readmission rate were found between both techniques.
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation appears to improve several perioperative outcomes while maintaining comparable graft and patient survival outcomes to open kidney transplantation.
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation appears to improve several perioperative outcomes while maintaining comparable graft and patient survival outcomes to open kidney transplantation.