Robotic heart transplant surgery performed at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
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Illustration credit: brgfx via Freepik. Press release: Baylor College of Medicine. Taylor Barnes. Houston, TX – – June 17, 2025.
Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on an adult patient – the first reported in the United States. Using a surgical robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and his team made small, precise incisions, eliminating the need to open the chest and break the breast bone. Liao removed the diseased heart, and the new heart was implanted through preperitoneal space, avoiding chest incision. […]
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