On Friday, May 16, 2025, the 3rd liver transplant of live donor in our country was held with great success at the Athens General Hospital after the completion of the relevant protocol.

Is the first time In Greek medical time, a robotic system is used in the context of the process of transplanting compact organs into public hospital. Donor was one 56 -year -old mother by Patras, whose right lobe of liver was used to transplant with him Son of H.- M., 18 years of age, which was suffered by cirrhosis of liver in families of families.

Partial hepatectomy in the donor graft donor was performed using the Davinci robotic system.

Applying the most modern method of minimally invasive surgery to the donor surgery gives an additional incentive to further disseminate and apply liver transplantation from a living donor in our country.

At the same time, regarding this specialized intervention, the use of the robotic system places our country’s national health system in the 1st line of internationally applied corresponding techniques. It is typically reported that this method is systematically applied to only 2 European transplant centers in Italy and Portugal, and to few additional transplant centers internationally.

The operation was performed by the surgical team of Professor of Surgery George Sotiropoulos and the Anesthesiology Team of the Director of Anesthesiological Catherine Lambadari.

“We would like to thank and congratulate all those who participated in the organization and realization of this surgery, surgeons, anesthesiologists, hepatologists, intensive care, radiologists, cardiologists, lungs, blood donors Nursing wings, administrative and financial services, “the 1st Health District said in a statement.

He wishes the successful carrying out of the robotic intervention in the donor graft donor to “contribute to the promotion of liver transplantation from a living donor in our country, facilitating prospective donors in their decision in the direction of kinship liver transplant”.