Feasibility of simultaneous donor nephrectomy and kidney transplantation using a shared single-port robotic platform
Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Adam Esa, Dylan Isaacson, Sami Shoucair, Venkatesh Krishnamurthi, Jihad Kaouk, Yi-Chia Lin, Alvin Wee, Mohamed Eltemamy · 2026
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Hafiz Umair Siddiqui leads a 2026 feasibility study on doing donor kidney removal and recipient transplantation back-to-back on one shared robotic platform. Single-port robots enable new approaches to both operations, but scarce robotic access can prevent running donor and recipient surgery simultaneously.
Among forty-five living donor and recipient operations from 2019 to 2025, fifteen pairs used a simultaneous single-port workflow on the same platform, while thirty used laparoscopic donor surgery for comparison. The team judged feasibility, safety, and efficiency. Transplant centres gain a scheduling model that stretches one expensive robot across two linked operations without, in this series, abandoning the approach.
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| CREATOR | Hafiz Umair Siddiqui, Adam Esa, Dylan Isaacson, Sami Shoucair, Venkatesh Krishnamurthi, Jihad Kaouk, Yi-Chia Lin, Alvin Wee, Mohamed Eltemamy |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29223 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |