da Vinci® Surgery for Kidney Disease

http://www.or-live.com/daVinci/1725 OR-Live and Henry Ford Hospital will present a live Webcast of a da Vinci® (Robotic) Partial Nephrectomy from the Henry Ford Hospital's Vattikuti Urology Institute on December 6, 2007 at 5 PM (ET). Craig Rogers, M.D., Director of Robotic Renal Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital and Director of Urologic Oncology at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, will perform this minimally invasive procedure using the da Vinci® S™ Surgical System. James Peabody, M.D., Senior Staff Surgeon of the Vattikuti Urology Institute, will moderate this event to explain critical portions of the surgery and answer e-mail questions from viewers. da Vinci® (NASDAQ: ISRG) is a breakthrough robotic system designed to transcend the limitations of both traditional open surgery and conventional laparoscopy—thereby expanding the surgeon's capabilities and providing patients a minimally invasive option for many complex procedures. da Vinci® Partial Nephrectomy represents a state-of-the-art, minimally invasive approach to surgically remove kidney tumors while preserving healthy renal tissue necessary for normal kidney function. The da Vinci's high-definition 3D vision system, fully wristed instrumentation, intuitive motion and ergonomic design provide unsurpassed visualization, surgical dexterity and control. This allows the surgeon to perform all the steps of a partial nephrectomy—including careful dissection, tumor identification and excision, and renal capsule reconstruction—with far greater surgical precision, ease and efficiency compared to conventional laparoscopy. Currently, most surgeons remove kidney tumors with an open incision and at times choose to remove the entire kidney, rather than only the diseased portion, due to the limitations of conventional laparoscopic technology and the complexity of the operation. One of the biggest challenges in performing a successful partial nephrectomy procedure is that the surgeon must excise the tumor and recons...