Papers
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Total Citations
717
H-Index
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About
Mario Spaggiari is a pioneering transplant surgeon whose research has fundamentally transformed access to organ transplantation for obese patients — a population historically denied life-saving procedures due to elevated surgical risk. Working at the intersection of robotic surgery and transplantation medicine, Spaggiari has built a remarkable body of evidence demonstrating that minimally invasive robotic techniques can safely and effectively replace open procedures across kidney, liver, and pancreas transplantation. His most celebrated contribution, a 2013 paper with 190 citations, introduced robotic kidney transplantation for obese patients who had previously been excluded from transplant waitlists. Subsequent work spanning over a decade — including a landmark 10-year single-center study and innovative simultaneous robotic kidney transplantation combined with bariatric surgery — has cemented his position as the world's leading authority in this niche. He has also extended robotic approaches to right lobe donor hepatectomy (166 citations) and pancreas transplantation in morbidly obese recipients, broadening the frontier of what robotic surgery can achieve. With over 650 cumulative citations across his top papers, Spaggiari's research has meaningfully reshaped eligibility criteria and clinical practice in transplantation, giving thousands of previously excluded patients a genuine pathway to treatment.
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- 2Robot-assisted right lobe donor hepatectomy166 citations · 2011
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- 5Robotic Assisted Living Donor Nephrectomies34 citations · 2020
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- 9Obesity in kidney transplantation23 citations · 2019
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