Robotic vs laparoscopic resection in patients 75 and older

What is known

• In a robotic vs laparoscopic ileocolic resection comparison (mean age ~35), the robotic approach was as safe/feasible with a lower overall complication rate and faster return of bowel function, but no pulmonary-specific endpoint was reported. ¹
• National-database matching showed robotic-assisted ileocolic resection had lower 30-day complication rates and shorter stay versus open, but the comparator was open surgery, not laparoscopy, and complications were not broken out as pulmonary. ²
• Older crohn's patients (cut-off 55y) undergoing laparotomy had markedly higher respiratory complications (18.2% vs 2.4%) than younger patients, with similar mortality and leak rates, but this is an open-surgery cohort with no minimally invasive comparison. ³

What is unknown / caveats

• No retrieved study reports pulmonary complications as an endpoint for robotic vs laparoscopic resection
• Robotic cohorts are young (mean ~35y); none stratified to ≥75y
• The elderly respiratory-risk data are open-surgery only, pre-robotic era
• The specific question. Robotic vs laparoscopic effect on pulmonary complications in patients ≥75. Is not addressed by any retrieved source.

References

1. Aydinli HH, Anderson M, Hambrecht A, Bernstein MA, Grucela AL. Robotic ileocolic resection with intracorporeal anastomosis for Crohn's disease. J Robot Surg. 2021;15(3):465-472. PMID: 32725327.

2. Raskin ER, Gorrepati ML, Mehendale S, Gaertner WB. Robotic-assisted ileocolic resection for Crohn's disease: outcomes from an early national experience. J Robot Surg. 2019;13(3):429-434. PMID: 30426352.

3. Norris B, Solomon MJ, Eyers AA, West RH, Glenn DC, Morgan BP. Abdominal surgery in the older Crohn's population. Aust N Z J Surg. 1999;69(3):199-204. PMID: 10075359.

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