@article{ACS16999,
author = {Veronica Manolache and Natalia Motas and Mugurel Liviu Bosinceanu and Mercedes de la Torre and Javier Gallego-Poveda and Joel Dunning and Mahmoud Ismail and Akif Turna and Marina Paradela and Georges Decker and Ricard Ramos and Johanes Bodner and Dionisio Espinosa Jimenez and Patrick Zardo and Alejandro Garcia-Perez and Anna Ureña Lluveras and Daniel Pantile and Diego Gonzalez-Rivas},
title = {Comparison of uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery pulmonary anatomic resections with multiport robotic-assisted thoracic surgery: a multicenter study of the European experience},
journal = {Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery},
volume = {12},
number = {2},
year = {2023},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) has seen increasing interest in the last few years, with most procedures primarily being performed in the conventional multiport manner. Our team has developed a new approach that has the potential to convert surgeons from uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) or open surgery to robotic-assisted surgery, uniportal-RATS (U-RATS). We aimed to evaluate the outcomes of one single incision, uniportal robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (U-RATS) against standard multiport RATS (M-RATS) with regards to safety, feasibility, surgical technique, immediate oncological result, postoperative recovery, and 30-day follow-up morbidity and mortality.
Methods: We performed a large retrospective multi-institutional review of our prospectively curated database, including 101 consecutive U-RATS procedures performed from September 2021 to October 2022, in the European centers that our main surgeon operates in. We compared these cases to 101 consecutive M-RATS cases done by our colleagues in Barcelona between 2019 to 2022.
Results: Both patient groups were similar with respect to demographics, smoking status and tumor size, but were significantly younger in the U-RATS group [M-RATS =69 (range, 39–81) years; U-RATS =63 years (range, 19–82) years; P},
issn = {2304-1021}, url = {https://www.annalscts.com/article/view/16999}
}