University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Pediatric Surgery

The Division of Pediatric Surgery at University of Iowa Children's Hospital offers patients a new approach to minimally invasive laparoscopic and thorascopic surgery. Many procedures, including cholecystectomies, appendectomies, splenectomies, Nissan fundoplication, and Heller myotomies, are performed with the assistance of the da Vinci® robotic surgical system.

Pediatric surgeons at University of Iowa Children's Hospital perform robotic surgery in infants and neonates, and are among the first to recognize the benefits of robotic surgery for children:

• November 2002 - world's first pediatric colon resection
• March 2003 - world's first pediatric adrenalectomy
• April 2003 - world's first total proctocolectomy with pull-through (pediatric or adult)
• Summer 2003 - world's first Ladd's procedure
• September 2004 - world's smallest Nissan fundoplication and smallest robotic surgery patient in the world (any procedure) at 2.6 kg
• March 2005 - Iowa Baby Is World's First (and Youngest) To Receive Life-Saving Robotic Surgery: March 3, 2005

Surgeons using the da Vinci®:

Joel Shilyansky, MD

• Pediatric robotic surgery

J. Christopher Austin, MD

• Pediatric robotic surgery
• Pediatric pyeloplasties

News

• Iowa Baby Is World's First (and Youngest) To Receive Life-Saving Robotic Surgery: March 3, 2005
• Adrenal gland surgery March 21, 2003
• Robosurgery pioneers
• Surgical firsts

For more information, please contact:

Laura Phearman, RN
laura-phearman@uiowa.edu
319-356-3750

Joel Shilyansky, MD
joel-shilyansky@uiowa.edu
319-356-2229

J. Christopher Austin, MD
chris-austin@uiowa.edu
319-356-0743

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