Rafał B. Drobot

Institutional availability, training resources, and supervised participation in robot-assisted surgery among Polish urology residents: a nationwide survey

Robot-assisted surgery (RAS) has expanded rapidly in Poland, but its integration into resident education remains uncertain. In a nationwide anonymous 35-question survey sent to 390 Polish urology residents, 156 completed it (40.0%). Among respondents, 110 (70.5%) reported RAS ava...

Distributional burden of the English urology elective waiting list after the 2024 reporting reset

Headline referral to treatment metrics can conceal where waiting-list mass lies. This study quantified the distributional and operational burden of the English C_101 Urology Service waiting list in the post-reset series, defined as April 2024 onward after consultant-led community...

Beyond living donation: robot-assisted kidney transplantation using deceased-donor grafts—a scoping review of selection, ischaemia logistics, and allograft outcomes

Deceased-donor robot-assisted kidney transplantation (DD-RAKT) couples an unscheduled graft pathway with a resource-dependent operation. Living-donor-dominated reviews do not resolve DD-specific selection, ischaemia logistics, outcomes, or patient benefit. We aimed to map DD-RAKT...

Robot-assisted urologic surgery after kidney transplantation: indications, graft-protection strategies, and outcomes—a scoping review

Kidney transplantation relocates a vascularized graft and ureter into the iliac fossa, changing subsequent urologic surgery. Existing syntheses are procedure-specific. This scoping review mapped indications, graft-protection strategies, outcomes, and evidence gaps across robot-as...

Beyond rewarming time: graft thermometry and cooling technologies in robot-assisted kidney transplantation—a scoping review

Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) converts vascular anastomosis time into an incompletely measured thermal exposure. We mapped how grafts are cooled and how temperature is measured, reported, and linked to outcomes during RAKT. Following a prespecified protocol and a d...