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PURPOSE: Robotic-assisted surgery for radical prostatectomy is becoming a standard treatment, and respective implementations are expanding. The Senhance Surgical System is a robotic system with existing but limited data on radical prostatectomy, including a lack of multicenter study experiences. The TRUST study aims to fill this gap and explores observations for radical prostatectomy with the Senhance Surgical System. METHODS: Between August 2019 and November 2022, 375 patients met inclusion criteria from two European sites...

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The objective was to describe early experience performing sacrocolpopexy using a novel robotic surgical platform. METHODS: This is a case series of all women who underwent robotic-assisted sacrocolpopexy using a new robotics platform (TransEnterix Senhance) between January 2019 and July 2021. All sacrocolpopexies were performed by a single Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive surgeon at a large academic institution. Perioperative information including complications was abstracted from the medical record...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this article was to provide feasibility and safety results of robotic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair (Robotic TAPP). METHODS: We included 271 cases of robotic inguinal hernia TAPP repair using the Senhance® robotic platform from four different centers between March 2017 and March 2020. Key data points were intraoperative and postoperative complication rate, operating time, length of hospital stay, postoperative pain score and time required to get back to a daily routine that were inserted in the TransEnterix European Patient Registry for Robotic assisted Laparoscopic Procedures in Urology, Abdominal Surgery, Thoracic and Gynecologic Surgery (TRUST)...

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has represented the main innovation in the field of pediatric surgery and urology over the last 30 years. Pediatric MIS is a wide field, ranging from the standard laparoscopic surgery using 3-mm ports to robotics mainly adopted for pediatric urology indications. The aim of this paper was to summarize the current status of robotic surgery in pediatric urology and to evaluate possible future technical developments for this technique. In pediatric urology, many procedures are challenged by the narrow working space available in smaller children, the difficulty to perform complex and long suture lines to repair complex urinary malformations, and the challenge to remove renal or adrenal tumors...

The Senhance® robotic system (TransEnterix, Morrisville, NC, USA), previously called the TELELAP Alf-X system, is a novel robotic system with a telesurgical concept. We herein describe our initial experience of Senhance® assisted laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with detailed figures and videos. Case 1: A left renal tumor was incidentally detected in a 52-year-old female on ultrasonography. Case 2: A right renal tumor was detected in a 67-year-old male with epigastric pain on computed tomography...

No data exist concerning the appication of a new robotic system with 3 mm instruments (Senhance®, Transenterix) in infants and small children. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the system for its feasibility, performance and safety of robotic pediatric abdominal and thoracic surgery in piglets simulating infants with a body weight lower than 10 kg. 34 procedures (from explorative laparoscopy to thoracoscopic esophageal repair) were performed in 12 piglets with a median age of 23 (interquartile range: 12-28) days and a median body weight of 6...

INTRODUCTION: Robotic surgery was first introduced in the mid-1980s, and at the end of the '90s, the da Vinci® System (Intuitive Surgical Inc., Sunnyvale, California) was introduced in Europe and held a monopoly for years afterward. In 2016, Senhance™ digital laparoscopic platform (TransEnterix Inc., Morrisville, North Carolina) came to the market. This new platform is based on laparoscopic movements and is designed for laparoscopic surgeons. This study shows the surgical outcomes of patients after different visceral, colorectal, gynecological, and urological surgical procedures done with the Senhance™ digital laparoscopic platform with a focus on safety...

"The new frontier of robotic surgery is well under way. Current research and development is rapidly progressing, allowing for the creation of many new robotic companies. Each company has its own identity and platform for what their vision for the future entails. The competition generated between these companies will shortly be forcing newer, cheaper, more accessible robotic systems worldwide."

The aim of this case report was to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy, and safety of nerve-sparing laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy (SCP) performed with a minimally invasive approach by using 2.9-mm Senhance ® surgical robotic system (Senhance ® , TRANSENTERIX Inc., USA). A 60-year-old Caucasian woman with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse-Q (POP-Q) Aa: 2, Ba: 3, C: +4, Bp:2, Ap: 2, TVL:10 underwent subtotal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, with nerve-sparing SCP performed using the Senhance surgical robotic system...

Preoperative planning software and a robotic device facilitate the placement of pedicle screws, especially in patients with difficult anatomy, thereby increasing the feasibility, accuracy, and efficiency of the procedure. The robot functions as a semiactive surgical assistive device whose goal is not to substitute but to offer the surgeon a set of versatile tools that can broaden his or her ability to treat patients1 . Description: The robotic guidance system consists of a bed-mounted surgical arm and a workstation...

INTRODUCTION: While the well-known DaVinci ® robotic system (Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) uses 8 mm articulated instruments, the Senhance ® robotic system (TransEnterix, Morrisville, NC), available since 2016, uses 5 mm instruments, which is the standard size in laparoscopy. We report here the first 43 procedures using 5 mm articulating instruments with the Senhance ® system (TransEnterix). METHODS: From September 9, 2019, to January 15, 2020, we performed 43 various robotic-assisted abdominal procedures...

BACKGROUND: Several manufacturers are in the process of developing various innovative systems and expect more options in the robot market. One of the latest systems, the Senhance® platform (TransEnterix Surgical Inc, Morrisville, NC, USA), has already been introduced in Europe and has also been approved for clinical use in Japan. We report the first case of colorectal resection using Senhance in Japan. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 79-year-old Japanese man who visited a previous physician for positive fecal occult blood...

INTRODUCTION: Robotic-assisted surgery continues to evolve. Technical advantages are reported for intracorporal suturing, a technique with a long learning curve in conventional laparoscopy. The success of laparoscopic fundoplication relies on precise suturing at the hiatus and of the fundal wrap. Therefore, robotic assistance can be a useful tool for this particular procedure. In March 2017, the Senhance® Surgical System (Transenterix, Inc., Morrisville, North Carolina) was introduced into robotic-assisted procedures at the St...

Until recently, robotic surgery has been associated only with the da Vinci robotic system. A novel Senhance® robotic system (TransEnterix Surgical Inc., Morrisville, NC, USA) was introduced almost 5 years ago. Published reports on experience using this robotic platform are very limited. We present a prospective analysis of the first 100 robotic surgeries in abdominal surgery, gynecology, and urology in Klaipeda University Hospital, Klaipeda, Lithuania. Out of 100 operated patients during the mentioned period, 49 were female and 51 men, age range 27-79 years, on an average 55 years...

No data exists concerning the application of a new robotic system with 3-mm instruments (Senhance™, Transenterix, Milano, Italy) in small cavities. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the system for its performance of intracorporal suturing in small boxes simulating small body cavities. Translucent plastic boxes of decreasing volumes (2519-90 ml) were used. The procedures (two single stitches, each with two consecutive surgical square knots) were performed by a system-experienced and three system-inexperienced surgeons in each box, starting within the largest box, consecutively exchanging the boxes into smaller ones...

INTRODUCTION: This retrospective study was performed to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the new Senhance Robotic System (TransEnterix Inc., Morrisville, North Carolina) for inguinal hernia repairs using the transabdominal preperitoneal approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From March to September 2017, 76 inguinal hernia repairs in 64 patients were performed using the Senhance Robotic System. Patients were between 18 and 90 years of age, eligible for a laparoscopic procedure with general anesthesia, had no life-threatening disease with a life expectancy of less than 12 months, and a body mass index (BMI) < 35...

This retrospective study was performed to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the new Senhance robotic system (Transenterix) for robotic cholecystectomy. Our series is the first experience with cholecystectomies utilizing this new platform. From May 2017 to August 2017, 20 robotic cholecystectomies were performed using the Senhance robotic system. Patients were between 23 years and 78 years of age, eligible for a laparoscopic procedure with general anesthesia, with no life-threatening co-morbidities that limited the subjects' life-expectancy to fewer than 12 months...

BACKGROUND: Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) allows better cosmesis and decreased pain when compared with traditional laparoscopy (TL). Instrument crowding and diminished triangulation are limitations. This study evaluates a novel single-port surgical platform (NSP) designed to facilitate the transition from TL to LESS (TransEnterix SPIDER, Durham, NC). METHODS: NSP and TL were compared using standardized dry lab tasks. Feasibility of NSP in gynecology was assessed using the porcine model...

PURPOSE: The goal of this report is to describe our initial clinical experience performing a simple nephrectomy with the SPIDER (Single Port Instrument Delivery Extended Reach) laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) surgical system. PATIENT AND METHODS: One patient with a nonfunctioning kidney secondary to a ureteropelvic junction obstruction underwent a simple nephrectomy through a single incision performed using the SPIDER surgical system. We assessed the technical feasibility, efficiency, and perioperative outcomes...

This case study describes our initial laboratory experience using the SPIDER surgical system (TransEnterix, Morrisville, NC, USA) for laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) urologic procedures and reports its first clinical application. The SPIDER system was tested in a laboratory setting and used for a clinical case of renal cyst decortication. Three tasks were performed during the dry lab session, and different urologic procedures were conducted in a porcine model. The time to complete the tasks and penalties were registered during the dry lab session...