pune a team of doctors at aditya birla memorial hospital abmh successfully performed a robotassisted living donor liver transplant surgery on a 12yearold girl suffering from endstage liver disease on march 12the girl was diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis leading to endstage liver disease in the girls case her mother came forward and donated part of her healthy liver paving way for an early transplant otherwise organ donation is a timeconsuming process we planned for a living donor liver transplant using our advanced robotassisted technology to ensure accuracy and faster recovery of the donor abmhs liver transplant surgeon sharan narute saidthe surgery lasted for sixandahalf hours the donor had an excellent recovery and was sent home after three days of the surgery the girl also responded well and was discharged home on the seventh day after the surgeryrekha dubey chief executive officer abmh said this is the firstofitskind robotic living donor liver transplant surgery in the western part of india carried out on a paediatric patient the girls mother said she is feeling better and all her health issues have resolved posttransplant surgery