Roper St. Francis Healthcare is a regional leader in minimally invasive surgery. Minimally invasive surgery is performed through small incisions or natural body openings to minimize trauma. The benefits of minimally invasive surgery are so great that in many cases it has become the standard procedure, replacing traditional open surgery.
Types of minimally invasive procedures:
- Robotic surgery
- Laparoscopy
- Laser
- Endovascular advances
- Angioplasty
- Stents and grafts
- Heart valve surgery
Robotic surgery
Robotic surgery, a minimally invasive technique, allows the surgeon to operate through a few small incisions and provides a 3-D high definition view. The tiny instruments that are used can bend and rotate well beyond the capabilities of the human wrist. The benefits of robotic surgery for you are a smaller scar, less pain, shorter hospital stay and a faster recovery.
Roper Hospital was the first hospital in the Lowcountry to offer this technology and today our surgeons have performed thousands of robotic surgeries. Roper Hospital is an internationally recognized colorectal robotic epicenter. This designation as a robotic epicenter means our program met a rigorous list of criteria and is a teaching center for this advanced colon cancer fighting tool.
Types of conditions treated with robotic surgery:
- Bladder and kidney cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Diverticulitis
- Endometriosis
- Female pelvic organ prolapse
- Gallbladder surgery
- Hip replacements
- Hysterectomies
- Inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease)
- Knee replacements
- Menorrhagia or excessive bleeding
- Prostate cancer
- Ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction
- Uterine cancer
- Uterine fibroids
- Uterine prolapse