HOUSTON — Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States.
Using a robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and his team conducted the operation without opening the chest or breaking the breastbone. Instead, the team used small incisions to remove the diseased heart and implant the new one, avoiding a chest incision entirely.
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