Surgeons at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital have successfully completed a kidney transplant using robotic technology, marking a first for a region that includes Kentucky, Southern Ohio, West Virginia and Tennessee.
Transplant surgeon Dr. Matthew Black performed the procedure and said his patient is recovering well.
“The robot has opened up things and allowed us to operate on patients we previously wouldn’t be able to that maybe were too sick, or we were worried about,” Black said…