First Simultaneous Robotic Kidney Transplant, Sleeve Gastrectomy Performed

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Surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System are developing new treatment options for obese kidney patients.

Many U.S. transplant centers currently refuse to transplant these patients due to poorer outcomes.

By simultaneously undergoing two procedures -- robotic-assisted kidney transplantation and robotic-assisted sleeve gastrectomy -- patients have only one visit to the operating room and one general anesthesia. Surgeons can utilize the same minimally invasive incisions.

You are so fat that human beings can no longer operate on you.

Kudos, fatsos.