Objective:To report the outcomes of surgery for a contemporary series of patients with locally advanced non-metastatic renal cell carcinoma(RCC)treated at a referral academic centre,focusing on technical nuances and o...Objective:To report the outcomes of surgery for a contemporary series of patients with locally advanced non-metastatic renal cell carcinoma(RCC)treated at a referral academic centre,focusing on technical nuances and on the value of a multidisciplinary team.Methods:We queried our prospective institutional database to identify patients undergoing surgical treatment for locally advanced(cT3-T4 N0-1 M0)renal masses suspected of RCC at our centre between January 2017 and December 2020.Results:Overall,32 patients were included in the analytic cohort.Of these,12(37.5%)tumours were staged as cT3a,8(25.0%)as cT3b,5(15.6%)as cT3c,and 7(21.9%)as cT4;6(18.8%)patients had preoperative evidence of lymph node involvement.Nine(28.1%)patients underwent nephron-sparing surgery while 23(71.9%)received radical nephrectomy.A template-based lymphadenectomy was performed in 12 cases,with evidence of disease in 3(25.0%)at definitive histopathological analysis.Four cases of RCC with level IV inferior vena cava thrombosis were successfully treated using liver transplant techniques without the need for extracorporeal circulation.While intraoperative complications were recorded in 3(9.4%)patients,no postoperative major complications(Clavien-Dindo3)were observed.At histopathological analysis,2(6.2%)patients who underwent partial nephrectomy harboured oncocytoma,while the most common malignant histotype was clear cell RCC(62.5%),with a median Leibovich score of 6(interquartile range 5e7).Conclusion:Locally advanced RCC is a complex and heterogenous disease posing several challenges to surgical teams.Our experience confirms that provided careful patient selection,surgery in experienced hands can achieve favourable perioperative,oncological,and functional outcomes.展开更多
Kidney transplantation(KT)is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease,providing a better survival rate and quality of life compared to dialysis.Despite the progress in the medical management o...Kidney transplantation(KT)is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease,providing a better survival rate and quality of life compared to dialysis.Despite the progress in the medical management of KT patients,from a purely surgical standpoint,KT has resisted innovations during the last 50 years.Recently,robot-assisted KT(RAKT)has been proposed as an alternative approach to open surgery,especially due to its potential benefits for fragile and immunocompromised recipients.It was not until 2014 that the role of RAKT has found value thanks to the pioneering Vattikuti Urology Institute-Medanta collaboration that conceptualized and developed a new surgical technique for RAKT following the Idea,Development,Exploration,Assessment,Long-term follow-up recommendations for introducing surgical innovations into real-life practice.During the last years,mirroring the Vattikuti-Medanta technique,several centers developed RAKT program worldwide,providing strong evidence about the safety and the feasibility of this procedure.However,the majority of RAKT are still performed in the living donor setting,as an“eligible”procedure,while only a few centers have realized KT through a robotic approach in the challenging scenario of cadaver donation.In addition,despite the spread of minimally-invasive(predominantly robotic)surgery worldwide,many KTs are still performed in an open fashion.Regardless of the type of incision employed by surgeons,open KT may lead to nonnegligible risks of wound complications,especially among obese patients.Particularly,the assessment for KT should consider not only the added surgical technical challenges but also the higher risk of postoperative complications.In this context,robotic surgery could offer several benefits,including providing a better exposure of the surgical field and better instrument maneuverability,as well as the possibility to integrate other technological nuances,such as the use of intraoperative fluorescence vascular imaging with indocyanine green to assess the ureteral vascularization before the uretero-vesical anastomosis.Therefore,our review aims to report the more significant experiences regarding RAKT,focusing on the results and future perspectives.展开更多
文摘Objective:To report the outcomes of surgery for a contemporary series of patients with locally advanced non-metastatic renal cell carcinoma(RCC)treated at a referral academic centre,focusing on technical nuances and on the value of a multidisciplinary team.Methods:We queried our prospective institutional database to identify patients undergoing surgical treatment for locally advanced(cT3-T4 N0-1 M0)renal masses suspected of RCC at our centre between January 2017 and December 2020.Results:Overall,32 patients were included in the analytic cohort.Of these,12(37.5%)tumours were staged as cT3a,8(25.0%)as cT3b,5(15.6%)as cT3c,and 7(21.9%)as cT4;6(18.8%)patients had preoperative evidence of lymph node involvement.Nine(28.1%)patients underwent nephron-sparing surgery while 23(71.9%)received radical nephrectomy.A template-based lymphadenectomy was performed in 12 cases,with evidence of disease in 3(25.0%)at definitive histopathological analysis.Four cases of RCC with level IV inferior vena cava thrombosis were successfully treated using liver transplant techniques without the need for extracorporeal circulation.While intraoperative complications were recorded in 3(9.4%)patients,no postoperative major complications(Clavien-Dindo3)were observed.At histopathological analysis,2(6.2%)patients who underwent partial nephrectomy harboured oncocytoma,while the most common malignant histotype was clear cell RCC(62.5%),with a median Leibovich score of 6(interquartile range 5e7).Conclusion:Locally advanced RCC is a complex and heterogenous disease posing several challenges to surgical teams.Our experience confirms that provided careful patient selection,surgery in experienced hands can achieve favourable perioperative,oncological,and functional outcomes.
文摘Kidney transplantation(KT)is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease,providing a better survival rate and quality of life compared to dialysis.Despite the progress in the medical management of KT patients,from a purely surgical standpoint,KT has resisted innovations during the last 50 years.Recently,robot-assisted KT(RAKT)has been proposed as an alternative approach to open surgery,especially due to its potential benefits for fragile and immunocompromised recipients.It was not until 2014 that the role of RAKT has found value thanks to the pioneering Vattikuti Urology Institute-Medanta collaboration that conceptualized and developed a new surgical technique for RAKT following the Idea,Development,Exploration,Assessment,Long-term follow-up recommendations for introducing surgical innovations into real-life practice.During the last years,mirroring the Vattikuti-Medanta technique,several centers developed RAKT program worldwide,providing strong evidence about the safety and the feasibility of this procedure.However,the majority of RAKT are still performed in the living donor setting,as an“eligible”procedure,while only a few centers have realized KT through a robotic approach in the challenging scenario of cadaver donation.In addition,despite the spread of minimally-invasive(predominantly robotic)surgery worldwide,many KTs are still performed in an open fashion.Regardless of the type of incision employed by surgeons,open KT may lead to nonnegligible risks of wound complications,especially among obese patients.Particularly,the assessment for KT should consider not only the added surgical technical challenges but also the higher risk of postoperative complications.In this context,robotic surgery could offer several benefits,including providing a better exposure of the surgical field and better instrument maneuverability,as well as the possibility to integrate other technological nuances,such as the use of intraoperative fluorescence vascular imaging with indocyanine green to assess the ureteral vascularization before the uretero-vesical anastomosis.Therefore,our review aims to report the more significant experiences regarding RAKT,focusing on the results and future perspectives.
