Apollo Hospitals Perform India’s First True Robotic Bariatric Surgery using Robotic Staplers
First Ever Reduced Port Gastro Intestinal Surgery Chennai: Apollo Hospital Chennai completes India’s first true robotic bariatric surgery on a 50 year old woman from Bangaladesh. With the availability of state-of-the-art technology and expertise, Apollo Chennai reached yet another robotic milestone on 8 Sep 2021 when Dr. Raj Palaniappan, Director and Lead Bariatric Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals performed India’s first fully robotic gastrointestinal surgery. He performed a complex bariatric surgery named “One Anastomotic Gastric Bypass” through just three robotic ports and performed the entire procedure without the use of any additional ports. Youtube Video👇👇 Mrs.Taniya, a 50 year old woman from Bangladesh, was a high risk super obese patient weighing 124 (KGs) (BMI - 51 kg/m2) with multiple comorbidities, including previous brain tumor surgery (astrocytoma), epilepsy (on treatment), right leg weakness and numbness post the brain disease, obstructive sleep apnea, on thyroid medications ...