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About
Dr. Angelika C. Gruessner is a pioneering surgeon whose research centers on advancing minimally invasive and robotic-assisted techniques in thoracic, pancreatic, and transplant surgery. Her most impactful work demonstrates the long-term efficacy of robotic anatomical segmentectomy for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer, a study with 35 citations that established robotic surgery as a viable, curative option with improved outcomes. She has also made seminal contributions to pancreatic surgery, notably through her investigation of open and robot-assisted pancreatectomies combined with autologous islet transplantation, which offers a dual benefit: treating chronic pancreatitis while preventing surgically induced diabetes. Her expertise extends to complex transplant procedures, including a landmark study on converting bladder to enteric drainage in pancreaticoduodenal transplantation and a recent single-center experience showing that robotic kidney transplantation from deceased donors achieves superior death-censored graft survival compared to matched UNOS cohorts. With over 24 citations for her pancreatic work and 18 for her transplant complications study, Dr. Gruessner’s research has fundamentally shaped modern surgical practice, offering patients safer, less invasive options with better long-term outcomes.
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