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Mark Sturdevant is a pioneering transplant surgeon whose research centers on advancing minimally invasive techniques in living donor liver transplantation, with a particular focus on robotic donor hepatectomy. His major contributions include demonstrating the safety and efficacy of robotic right lobe donor hepatectomy compared to traditional open surgery, as evidenced by his landmark 2020 propensity score–matched analysis (104 citations), which provided crucial data supporting broader adoption of this technically demanding procedure. He has also established the feasibility of robotic-assisted left lateral sectionectomy for pediatric transplantation, publishing comparative analyses of learning curves and mastery (48 citations). Sturdevant’s work from the world’s largest center has produced over 230 cumulative citations, with his 2021 paper “Robotic donor hepatectomy: A major breakthrough” (66 citations) serving as a seminal reference in the field. He has addressed challenging topics such as using living donor grafts for retransplantation and has authored forward-looking perspectives on the role of robotics in donor surgery. His research has been instrumental in demonstrating that fully robotic left lobe donor hepatectomy is safer than open approaches, helping to shift the paradigm toward minimally invasive donor surgery while maintaining rigorous standards of donor safety.
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- 6Fully Robotic Left Lobe Donor Hepatectomy Is Safer Compared to Open6 citations · 2025
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