First-in-Man Robotic-Assisted Renal Denervation

Konstantinos Bermpeis; Hirofumi Ohashi; Dario Tino Bertolone; Emanuele Gallinoro; Pasquale Paolisso; Attilio Leone; Jeroen Sonck; Sofie Brouwers; Eric Wyffels

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.10.007

First-in-Man Robotic-Assisted Renal Denervation

JACC Case Rep. 2022 Nov 3;4(23):101669. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2022.10.007. eCollection 2022 Dec 7.

Authors

Konstantinos Bermpeis^{1

2}, Hirofumi Ohashi^{1

3}, Dario Tino Bertolone^{1

4}, Emanuele Gallinoro^{1

5}, Pasquale Paolisso^{1

4}, Attilio Leone^{1

4}, Jeroen Sonck¹, Sofie Brouwers¹, Eric Wyffels¹

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV-Clinic, Aalst, Belgium.
² Department of Cardiology, AHEPA University General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ Department of Cardiology, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan.
⁴ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
⁵ Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli," Naples, Italy.

Abstract

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of robotic-assisted renal denervation. Robotic-assisted renal denervation represents a new frontier in robotic-assisted percutaneous interventions. Robotic assistance provides increased procedural and technical accuracy while minimizing radiation exposure for both the operators and the patients. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: RDN, renal denervation; hypertension; peripheral circulation; robotic surgery.

Publication types

Case Reports