• 1. Licentiate Training Base for Liaoning Medical College,General Hospital of The Second Artillery Corps of Chinese PLA, Beijing 100088, China;;
  • 2. Institute of Hepatobiliary Gastrointestinal Disease, General Hospital of The Second Artillery Corps of Chinese PLA, Beijing 100088, China;;
  • 3. Licentiate Training Base for Suzhou University, General Hospital of The Second Artillery Corps of Chinese PLA, Beijing 100088, China;
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Objective  To summarize the clinical experience of da Vinci surgical system in treatment for senile patients with severe obstructive jaundice.
Methods  From January 2009 to May 2011, 209 patients with hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) diseases underwent robotic surgeries by using da Vinci surgical system. Forty-seven senile patients with severe obstructive jaundice were selected for robotic surgery (robot group) and 44 for open surgery(open group).The distribution of disease, pro-, intra-, and post-operative data in the two groups were analyzed.
Results  Baseline of two groups was same. A total of 46 patients had underwent total robotic surgeries (97.87%,46/47) and 1 patient converted to hand-assisted procedure (2.13%,1/47). Surgeries included all HPB difficult surgical procedures, also including 1 case of hilar cholangiocarcinoma patient who had high level serum bilirubin (375μmol/L)and underwent emergency resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma and portal-jejunal Roux-en-Y anastomosis. Postoperative complications occurred in 7 cases (14.89%, 7/47) and 1 case died (2.13%, 1/47) . Three-month survival rate was 78.15%. Fifteen-day and 3-month after surgery, physical strength score was 42.87±18.61 and 58.51±23.86, respectively. The total length of abdominal incision was (6.30±1.70) cm. All the patients in the open group completed surgery, including emergency operation in 4 cases. Postoperative complications occurred in 13 cases (29.55%, 13/44) and 2 cases died (4.55%, 2/44).Three-month survival rate was 72.36%. Fifteen-day and 3-month after surgery, physical strength score was 37.15±13.64 and 45.27±18.96, respectively. The total length of abdominal incision was (26.73±3.07) cm. There were significant differences of postoperative complications, postoperative 15-day and 3-month physical strength score, and incision length between two groups(P<0.05).
Conclusions  da Vinci surgical system is safe and effective in treatment for senile patients with severe obstructive jaundice.

Citation: DING Lei,CHEN Junzhou,ZHANG Tao,FANG Jingjing,ZHOU Ningxin.. Application of da Vinci Surgical System in Senile Patients with Severe Obstructive Jaundice. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2012, 19(2): 171-176. doi: Copy