KUALA LUMPUR, November 29 — Surgeries are advanced medical procedures that require precision and focus.
Especially for surgical procedures relating to the urinary tract which incorporates kidneys, ureters, bladder, and the urethra which require extra care and warning as any damages to surrounding nerves might end in problems post-surgery.
Patients with urological ailments that require surgery equivalent to kidney tumour removing or prostatectomy (prostate most cancers removing), generally go for laparoscopic or open surgical procedures, which may be carried out by most surgeons.
With the development of medical expertise nonetheless, sufferers as of late also can go for robotic assisted surgery, which vastly improves the surgical final result whereas minimising dangers.
Patients will discover their restoration is far sooner due to smaller incisions, they usually can return to their each day actions simply.
Subang Jaya Medical Centre’s (SJMC) urologist Dr. Bala Sundaram Mariappan who has been a urologist for greater than 20 years, advised eNews Malaysia that the introduction of robotic assisted surgery like the da Vinci Xi surgical system has resulted in a optimistic influence in his line of work.
Dr.Bala has been a urologist for greater than 20 years now and is one of the pioneers of robotic assisted surgery in Malaysia. — Picture by Raymond Manuel.
“I personally suppose that the future of surgical procedures, particularly for advanced ones like radical prostatectomy, robotic assisted surgery is the approach to go.
“Robotic assisted surgery takes each good side of laparoscopic surgical procedures and throws away the dangerous features.
“It helps with imaginative and prescient enhancement because it gives a 3D imaginative and prescient in contrast to the 2D imaginative and prescient of typical laparoscopic surgery,” he mentioned.
“It also can amplify the imaginative and prescient up to 10 occasions, making it clearer and extra detailed.
“With the huge vary of actions accessible with the new Xi system, surgeons can have full management of each small motion throughout the surgery, and this helps when it comes to eradicating advanced tumours extra successfully.”
Dr. Bala added that working with robotic help appears like performing a surgery with an additional pair of fingers.
For sufferers, robotic assisted surgery leads to smaller incisions thus minimising blood loss and tissue harm, which leads to sooner restoration time and shorter hospital stay.
Patients who endure robotic assisted surgery want a couple of days of restoration in contrast to typical open surgery technique, which can take up to two weeks for restoration.
Dr. Bala identified that robotic surgical procedures are perfect for urological associated surgical procedures and nerve sparing surgical procedures as a result of of its precision.
“For instance, sufferers with prostate most cancers would wish to take away their prostate and the prostate is roofed by so much of nerves. These nerves are essential for different capabilities equivalent to erection and so forth.
“So, preserving and never damaging these nerves is essential. The threat of erectile dysfunction for sufferers present process open prostatectomy is there, however with robotic help, it minimises these dangers.”
Considered a pioneer, he was first launched to the Da Vinci Surgical System again in 2003 when he was serving at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Bahru, with the solely different public hospitals in Malaysia to have carried out the expertise being Hospital Kuala Lumpur.
Dr. Bala has since reintroduced robotic assisted surgical procedures as half of the therapy choices when sufferers come to see him.
“SJMC’s adoption of the newest medical expertise like this can profit our sufferers as a result of we all know how essential it’s for sufferers like males to require much less downtime post-surgery and get again on their toes sooner.”
Dr.Bala additionally shared that with robotic surgery, surgeons can now take away a kidney tumour extra exactly, sparing the relaxation of the kidney. — Picture by Raymond Manuel.
Sharing his sufferers’ expertise with the expertise, Dr. Bala mentioned it was simpler to persuade sufferers to go for this manner of surgery as soon as he defined its advantages.
He shared that it gave one of his sufferers who had to endure prostatectomy a confidence enhance.
“The final result was a lot better as a result of we managed to fully take away the most cancers.
“The affected person himself hardly felt any ache after the surgery as a result of of the small incision and he recovered shortly. It was very rewarding to him and us as docs.”
For worldwide sufferers, particularly these from Indonesia, robotic assisted surgery may be accomplished in someday and the affected person can begin strolling the subsequent day.
“The affected person even went out along with his household after that and flew dwelling the similar week.”
As with some other ailments, prevention is healthier than a treatment.
This is why Dr. Bala extremely recommends that males who’re above the age of 50 go for normal well being screenings and display screen for prostate most cancers.
An unusually excessive prostate-specific antigen (PSA) degree will point out the want for a person to search additional session with a urologist.
Prostate most cancers is the third most typical most cancers in Malaysia which impacts males as they get older. However, signs of prostate most cancers may be simply missed and most people current themselves at a sophisticated stage of most cancers.
