Sebastian Gallina
University of Verona, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona
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Total Citations
127
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About
Sebastian Gallina is a leading urologic oncologist whose research focuses on optimizing surgical outcomes for prostate and kidney cancer, with a particular emphasis on robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and partial nephrectomy. His major contributions center on identifying preoperative risk factors that predict postoperative complications and disease progression. Gallina’s landmark work demonstrated that advanced age independently portends poorer prognosis in high-risk prostate cancer patients (30 citations), while his research on obesity revealed it strongly predicts clinically undetected multiple lymph node metastases in intermediate- and high-risk cases (21 citations). He has published extensively on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status system as a predictor of major Clavien-Dindo complications after RARP, with multiple papers accumulating over 35 citations. His comparative analysis of transperitoneal versus retroperitoneal robotic partial nephrectomy (14 citations) provides crucial patient-centered data on mobilization and pain outcomes. Gallina’s work on surgical volume demonstrated that high-volume surgeons significantly decrease operating time in RARP (6 citations), contributing to quality improvement in minimally invasive urologic surgery. His research has collectively garnered over 120 citations, establishing him as an authority on risk stratification and surgical optimization in urologic oncology.
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