{"id":44047,"date":"2025-03-03T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=44047"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:35:13","slug":"the-first-two-children-to-undergo-robot-assisted-liver-surgery-are-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2025\/03\/the-first-two-children-to-undergo-robot-assisted-liver-surgery-are-doing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"The first two children to undergo robot-assisted liver surgery are doing well"},"content":{"rendered":"
Both children, who were the first minors in Hungary to undergo robot-assisted liver surgery at Semmelweis University, are recovering well, according to the results of a recent check-up. One of them, Zita, together with her mother, told us about her journey from diagnosis to intervention and recovery.<\/div>\n

\u201cWe are in the process of launching the robot-assisted pediatric liver surgery program at Semmelweis University, and the first two procedures performed on children with da Vinci robotic technology in January are expected to be followed by another soon,\u201d said Dr. Oszk\u00e1r Hahn, Deputy Director of the Department of Surgery, Transplantation and Gastroenterology (ST\u00e9G).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The 14-year-old Zita, who underwent the first robot-assisted surgery on a child in Hungary at the end of January, is doing well and, together with her mother, told her story to the website of the T\u0171zolt\u00f3 Street Department of Semmelweis University\u2019s Pediatric Center. \u201cIt was terrifying at first when they showed me the robot with the big arms. But what seems terrifying at first might just be what sees you through something. I thought about the fact that this robot had been put together by the best experts and that the knowledge of many, many doctors was in it. That made it less scary,\u201d said the 14-year-old Zita, recalling her feelings about the robot. Zita was treated for six months at the Pediatric Center, where her attending physician was Dr. Mikl\u00f3s Garami, a chief pediatric oncologist. Although the nine weeks of chemotherapy took its toll on her, the treatment more than halved the tumor\u2019s size. The liver tumor was removed using the da Vinci Surgical System<\/a>: The intervention was performed at the Department of Surgery, Transplantation and Gastroenterology by Dr. Oszk\u00e1r Hahn, ST\u00e9G\u2019s liver surgery profile leader, assisted by Dr. Attila Szij\u00e1rt\u00f3, Director of ST\u00e9G; surgeons Dr. Damj\u00e1n Pekli and Dr. Zolt\u00e1n De\u00e1k-Ilk\u00f3; a trained anesthesiologist; and qualified operating room assistants.<\/p>\n

T\u0171zolt\u00f3 Street Department, Pediatric Center, Semmelweis University
\nTranslation: Dr. Bal\u00e1zs Csizmadia
\nImage credit: T\u0171zolt\u00f3 Street Department, Pediatric Center, Semmelweis University; B\u00e1lint Barta – Semmelweis University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of them, Zita, together with her mother, told us about her journey from diagnosis to recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102369,"featured_media":44050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-x-nyitolap"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44063,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047\/revisions\/44063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}