"It was great for me. One - because I wasn't looking forward to having my whole stomach area cut open and there would have been a lot more pain and a lot more recovery," explained da Vinci robotic surgery patient Patricia Halstead. "With the four small incisions, it was able to heal up quickly and the scaring is really minimal."

Patricia had 3 fibroids that her doctors were concerned about. After doing research, she decided to have them removed with the less invasion da Vinci Robotic Surgery System.

A new clinical study highlights what Reno patients and doctors, performing the da Vinci surgeries on them have believed.
Peter Lim, MD, FACOG, Medical Director, Renown Institute for Robotic Surgery was the principal investigator for published research that evaluated 2,500 patients by comparing robotic, open, laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomies to see if there is a true benefit of robotic surgery when we perform benign hysterectomies.
"What the study basically showed was that robotic surgery showed that there was shorter hospitalization, less complications both intraoperatively and after surgery and it also showed that we were able to do more complex surgeries with less complications and better outcomes."

Over 4,000 robotic-assisted surgeries have been completed at Renown by the skilled team of da Vinci doctors in our community. Da Vinci surgeries are currently offered at Renown for hysterectomy and gynecologic cancer, as well as colorectal, hernia, gallbladder, prostate, kidney, thoracic, lung and stomach conditions.

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