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HOUSTON – Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center successfully performed a fully robotic heart transplant on an adult patient—the first reported in the United States, according to a release.

HOUSTON — Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States. Using a robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and ...

In 2025, U.S. surgeons performed first robotic heart transplant to be completed without opening the patient's chest cavity. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: In March 2025, surgeons at ...