Risk and complications of the robotic partial nephrectomy in patients in age over 65 years
Authors:
MUDr. Markéta Matějková 1; MUDr. Jiří Kočárek, Ph.D. 1,2
Authors‘ workplace:
Urologické oddělení, ÚVN Praha
1; Urologická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN Praha
2
Published in:
Geriatrie a Gerontologie 2019, 8, č. 2: 59-63
Category:
Original Article
Overview
Introduction: There is a bigger risk of complication after surgery in elderly patients. Nowadays, minimally invasive techniques come to the foreground in kidney tumour operations. These methods could reduce the risk of complications in not only this group of patients.
Material and methods: We performed robotic partial nephrectomy due to tumour between 2/2015–12/2018 in 43 patients with the average age of 71,9 years.
Results: We registered three intraoperative complications, four early postoperative complication Clavien-Dindo II (6,9 %) and one early postoperative complication Clavien-Dindo IIIB (2,3 %). There was no mortality in our patients.
Conclusion: Robotic partial nephrectomy is a safe method suitable also for elderly patients. Age should not be considered as a contraindication to robotic surgery, even for advanced procedures.
Keywords:
complications – surgery in elderly – robotic partial nephrectomy
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