Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, Daegu·Gyeongbuk's First Successful 'Robot Hernia Surgery' ... Professor Jeong Eun-young's Team

Professor Eun-Young Jeong's pediatric surgery team at Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital (Director Nam-Hee Park) announced on the 25th that they successfully performed the first adult hernia surgery using the Da Vinci robotic surgery system in Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

Professor Jeong Eun-young, Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital.

Robotic hernia surgery utilizes freely movable robotic joints to enhance the precision of movements, overcoming the limitations of traditional laparoscopic surgery. Additionally, the 3D optical camera allows detailed observation down to individual nerve branches, minimizing the risk of nerve damage during surgery and enabling the most accurate surgical procedure possible.

Professor Jeong said, “Patients who undergo hernia surgery often experience various forms of acute and chronic pain. For this reason, we considered more precise surgical methods and applied the advantages of the latest robotic surgery technique to adult hernia surgery.”

Based on her extensive experience in hernia surgery, Professor Jeong has performed approximately 3,000 cases of laparoscopic hernia surgery to date and has introduced robotic hernia surgery, which has recently been growing mainly in the United States and Europe, for the first time.

Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital.

In the field of pediatric hernia as well, laparoscopic surgery was introduced 10 years ago, and the team developed the world’s first ‘laparoscopic extraperitoneal ligation,’ which was published in the Journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Currently, this surgical method is actively performed exclusively in Korea.

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