UIC Surgeons Offer Obese Kidney Patients New Hope With Robotic Transplantation

And burn away the fat, too, while you are at it.

Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago are the first to offer robotic kidney transplantation to morbidly obese patients and report fewer complications among this high risk population.

"We have been able to eliminate wound infections, pulmonary complications, and reduce the length of hospitalization for obese kidney transplant recipients using robotic-assisted surgery," said Dr. Enrico Benedetti, the Warren H. Cole Chair and head of surgery at UIC.

Wound infections lead to increased risk of graft loss in transplant recipients, and obesity is the main risk factor for superficial wound infection, said Benedetti.

Hey fatsos, you are so fat that human surgeons don't want to touch you.

Maybe it is time to consider shedding the pounds or meet this doc: