Overview
- Bellvitge’s urology team has completed four living‑donor kidney implantations using the Da Vinci SP single‑port robot and reports successful early recoveries for the patients involved.
- The Da Vinci SP works through one 5–7 cm incision and carries three micro‑articulated instruments plus a 3D endoscope on a single arm, giving surgeons 360° range of motion and enhanced visualization.
- Clinicians at Bellvitge report measurable reductions in postoperative pain using the EVA pain scale and faster mobilization, and the first patient treated with the technique has already been discharged.
- The uniportal approach is being used only for the implantation step in living‑donor transplants while donor kidney removal remains done by conventional laparoscopy, and clinicians stress strict patient selection and limited experience to date.
- Bellvitge frames the move as part of a long robotic program that logged about 1,200 robotic procedures in 2025 and reached roughly 300 robotic renal transplants, and the hospital plans broader uniportal use in 2027.