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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A surgical team at AHN Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh recently completed the region’s first robotic-assisted kidney transplant for a recipient.

This procedure was performed in April by Jennifer Carpenter, MD, transplant surgeon and director of the living donor kidney transplant program at Allegheny Health Network and it used the daVinci® Surgical System. Sarah Skeba, PA-C assisted Dr. Carpenter.

This marks the first time that the technology has been used to assist in the implantation of a donor kidney into a recipient even though Allegheny Health Network has routinely performed robotic nephrectomies, or kidney removal, from living donors since 2018.